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Food and Marriage in the Suburbs

Francesca Segal | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Edith Wharton, Authors, Marriage, Jews, Jewish, Books, Food, Jewish Culture, London, UK Religion, Family, Culture, Kosher Food, UK Entertainment News
Francesca Segal

A rather grand colleague drifted over to me as I was flagging down a passing tray of miniature devilled eggs. "Your people", he observed, eyeing me over his cognac, "do like to eat." Well yes, we do. And where's the shame? Jews and food - everyone knows it, and so it was impossible to take offense.

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Why Spurs Fans Must Never Stop Singing The Y-Word

Andrew Gold | Posted 15.01.2013 | UK Sport
Read More: Arsenal FC, Shylock, Peter Herbert, Jewish, David Baddiel, Chelsea FC, Jewish Culture, Racism, Yiddish, Shakespeare, Spurs, Jermaine Defoe, Tottenham Hotspur, UK Football, England Football, UK Sport News
Andrew Gold

For Spurs fans, Yid is not synonymous with Jew. It incorporates all minorities and makes Tottenham unique as the outstanding multicultural, accepting club in Europe.

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Mistaken Identity

Juliet Simmons | Posted 10.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Adi Nes, Akram Khan, New York Times, Jewish Culture, Art, Jewish Museum, Culture, Religion, Jews, Judaism, UK Culture, Home News
Juliet Simmons

Do we have to be what people expect us to be as Jews? As Israelis? What happens if we are different, what happens if we don't want to mark ourselves out and what happens if we do?

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Howard Jacobson on his Disdain for Literary Critics, How he let down his Dad, and his Love for Prostitutes with TB: INTERVIEW

Jane Graham | Posted 04.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Literature, Jewish Culture, Political Correctness, UK Comedy, Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson, Home News
Jane Graham

Howard Jacobson hates himself for not being a worse man than he is. The once-proclaimed 'English Philip Roth', Booker Prize winner and literary dirty dog - his new novel Zoo Time, revels in its shoe fetishes and lusty ménage a trois fantasies - he still feels he hasn't sunk to the depths he looked excitedly into as a boy.

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Visiting Auschwitz 'Plays On The Mind' For Days Afterward

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Impact, Holocaust, Nazis, Poland, The Holocaust, Jewish Culture, Auschwitz, UK News

As Britain remembers servicemen and women killed in conflicts over the past century, HuffPost UK visits the former death camp at Auschwitz with a grou...

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Israel and Palestine Conflict: 'The World is in a Hurry, We are not'

John Lyndon | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Arab World, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Politics, West Bank, Gaza, Middle East, Jewish Culture, Israel, International, UK News
John Lyndon

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the lives of people far beyond the narrow strip of land that both sides are fighting over. It dominates the international agenda, preoccupying diplomats and statesmen from around the world, most of whom probably wish that this problem would just go away.

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