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Cheesecake with pistachio shortbread

Serves four

Fig, sultana, mixed nuts and seeds loaf

This fruit and seed loaf is delicious at tea time or even for breakfast with cream cheese and orange slices.

'We were told to collect wood to burn bodies'

Heroes and Villains: Who we liked, and who we didn't, in 2014

Figures worthy of our cheers and applause or deserving our boos and hisses — the year served up plenty of both

Poached pear mini cheesecakes

Makes 24

The importance of remembering the Holocaust

Teenager Charlotte Cohen has been chosen to join David Cameron's Holocaust Commission. Read her winning essay in full here.

Yoghurt mousse with cherry granita

A happy marriage of two perfect summer desserts

Film dinner proves big box office with £150,000 takings

Why did we sing when the Egyptians drowned?

The angels were stopped from singing about the Crossing of the Red Sea but not the Israelites

Why one is the Seder's special number

There may be tensions in the family but Pesach helps us to stick together

Pesach frees us from the tyranny of time

Memory of historic events is central to the Seder. But it also helps to release us from the burden of the past

The Talmud and Islam

In an extract from his new book, The Talmud – A Biography, Harry Freedman looks at the influence of Jews and Muslims on each other