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Jessica Biel discovers that she’s a little bit Jewish

“My friends are really into this. They say they’re going to throw me a bar mitzvah," the actress reveals on "Who Do You Think You Are?,” a TLC show.

Preparing for Passover in Ukraine’s last shtetl

The Jews of Bershad persist even though nearly all their relatives are living in the relative comfort of Israel or the United States. How did the community survive?

Celebrating Berlin’s first-ever Jewish food week

Demonstrations, lectures, screenings and more are on the menu during the German capital's weeklong celebration of Jewish food.

This Hot Yiddish Play Featured Broadway’s First Lesbian Kiss

Hot Pockets Were Invented by These Iranian Jewish Brothers

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‘Gilmore Girls’ creator makes a very Jewy TV pilot

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Groundbreaking TV comedy introduces Israelis to their Ethiopian neighbors

A rabbi, a priest, and a gay atheist smoke weed together — and bond over a Hebrew blessing

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of heartbreaking ‘dating profile’ of her husband, dies at 51

Chelsea Clinton cites Purim in scoring congressman who says ‘demographics are our destiny’

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