Jewish heritage

Why everything in the world can be divided into 'Jewish or Goyish'

Life can be complicated. We divide up the world into the only two categories that really matter

By Josh Glancy

3 min read

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June 15, 2023 13:52

Why everything in the world can be divided into 'Jewish or Goyish'

Giles Coren's chicken soup adventure

Our intrepid columnist's quest for a chicken with unlaid eggs to make the perfect broth

By Giles Coren

9 min read

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June 8, 2023 12:48

Columnist Giles Coren at his home in north London. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 17/05/2023

London’s Jewish Museum to close indefinitely amid massive losses

The institution hopes to sell its current Camden home to fund move to more suitable location in central London

By David Rose

2 min read

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June 1, 2023 11:00

London’s Jewish Museum to close indefinitely amid massive losses

Schleps and the City: The art of being flexi-dox

The key to our multi-millennia success is our flexibility

By Naomi Greenaway

3 min read

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April 21, 2023 19:26

By Ian Bloom

Pharaoh’s bizarre logic created the history of the Jewish people

It was wholly irrational of him to think the Jews would turn on Egypt. But if he hadn’t, our story would have ended in Egypt

5 min read

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January 12, 2023 09:06

By Nicholas Lezard

My Christmas gift to the children: we're Jewish!

This year, it was time to sit them all down around our Christmas tree and break the big news

3 min read

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December 29, 2022 14:45

Shabbat eve table.Woman hand lit Shabbath candles with uncovered challah bread and kippah.

By Benjamin Vos

SAS Rogue Heroes continues the tradition of joke Jewish soldiers

This comic relief role for Jewish soldiers has been a constant for well over a century

5 min read

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December 1, 2022 12:51

SAS Rogue Heroes continues the tradition of joke Jewish soldiers

What tombstones can teach us

Jewish cemeteries can be used as a history resource

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

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November 13, 2022 13:26

Amy Schumer: Bullies used to call me 'Amy Jewmer' and throw pennies

The comedian said that growing up in a Catholic town she faced regular antisemitism

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

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September 1, 2022 15:55

Amy Schumer: Bullies used to call me 'Amy Jewmer' and throw pennies

Lublin’s non-Jewish restaurateur with a big Yiddish heart

Alanis Morissette discovers family’s Holocaust past

Conservation area to be set up around Bevis Marks Synagogue

Nigel Planer: 'I was a gravedigger before my rise to fame'

Nigel Planer: 'My father hid that he was Jewish until his 70s'

Cooking my way back to the faith... with gefilte fish

City of London to consider conservation area around Bevis Marks Synagogue

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Cooking my way back to the faith... with gefilte fish

City of London to consider conservation area around Bevis Marks Synagogue

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Giles Coren's chicken soup adventure

London’s Jewish Museum to close indefinitely amid massive losses

Schleps and the City: The art of being flexi-dox

Pharaoh’s bizarre logic created the history of the Jewish people

My Christmas gift to the children: we're Jewish!

SAS Rogue Heroes continues the tradition of joke Jewish soldiers

What tombstones can teach us

Amy Schumer: Bullies used to call me 'Amy Jewmer' and throw pennies