I have never felt more Jewish than I do now. Last week’s anti-Semitic attack on two men in Golders Green has shifted something in the way I view my heritage and inspired a greater sense of solidarity with the Jewish community.
I don’t even know whether I can call myself Jewish – although with the surname Shulman, most people assume I am. My mother was not and Jewish identity is based on matrilineal descent.
She married Milton Shulman – who was most definitely Jewish – despite the disapproval of her parents, especially her father, who had denied his own sliver of Jewish
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