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We launched in 2019 to break the enforced communal consensus and create a space for the Jewish left. Since then, we’ve published over 80,000 words reporting on striking workers and dodgy communal leaders, reviving forgotten rituals and reviewing the latest in Jewish culture.

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🎸 PICKLE 63 // A STUDY IN MANIPULATION 🎸 🧬 PICKLE 62 // MY LIVE JEWISH BODY 🧬 On this day in 1947, the Jewish Anti-Zionist League in Egypt released an appeal in Arabic and French calling on Egyptian Jews to stand with Arabs against Zionism and British imperialism. 🏳️‍⚧️ PICKLE 61 // TRANS HALAKHA IS HERE 🏳️‍⚧️ On this day in 1935, the German-Jewish physician and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld died at the age of 67. 🇵🇸 PICKLE 60 // JUSTICE DENIED 🇵🇸 🔨 PICKLE 59 // NEITHER HERE NOR THERE 🔨 🇮🇹 PICKLE 58 // COAXING OUT THE GENIE 🇮🇹 On this day in 1920, the San Remo Resolution assigned Great Britain the Mandate over Palestine and tasked Britain with implementing the Balfour Declaration. The resulting British occupation facilitated Zionist dispossession of Palestinian land and violently repressed Palestinian resistance, ultimately creating the conditions for and permitting the Nakba and Israeli independence. The Mandate concluded on 15 May, 1948.