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Jewish media is broken. Vashti exists to change that.

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 46 // THE LAST ANGLO-JEWISH GENTLEMAN 🎨 78 years ago today, the Red Army arrived at Auschwitz to liberate 7,000 prisoners left behind by retreating Nazi SS officers. At least 1.1 million people perished while the concentration camp was in operation. 🙅PICKLE 45 // THE JEWISH REVOLT OF 1888🙅 🐷 TRANSPHOBIA IS TREIF 🐷 🎓 PICKLE 44 // THE NUS REPORT UNPACKED 🎓 “When I hear you use words against refugees like 'swarms' and 'an invasion', I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others.” Revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg was assassinated 104 years ago today. Born Rozalia Luksenburg into an assimilated Polish-Jewish family in 1871, she gained German citizenship at the age of 26 by marrying Gustav Lübeck. The two never lived together and divorced after five years, but the marriage allowed Luxemburg to engage in what then seemed the epicentre of the socialist struggle in Europe: the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). On Monday night, we will be hosting a Twitter Space to discuss the NUS anti-semitism report. Vashti editors will be joined by the director of the British Palestinian Committee Sara Husseini, Jewish student activist at the University of Oxford, Jack Klein, anti-semitism scholar Antony Lerman, historian Barnaby Raine, and the Diaspora Alliance’s Debbie Shamir. See you there! 👽 PICKLE 43 // ORGANISED ALIENS 👽