Highlights of our work
Access to puberty blockers is a Jewish issue
The UK’s ban is transphobic, unscientific, and in opposition to core Jewish values.
Jewish care home workers are striking. Will the community stand with them?
At Sage in Golders Green, staff are demanding fair wages and working conditions. British Jews could view this as a threat to our elders – or as fundamentally in our interests.
The queer surrealist lovers who took on the Nazis
The Queer, Anti-Nazi Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Strangers in a strange Land: Jewish sci-fi, Afrofuturism and visions from Palestine
Jewish, Black and Palestinian writers imagine persecution and liberation across the universe.
An audience with Talia Lavin, American Nazi-hunter
Like a schlubby Jewish Virgil, the American journalist leads readers of her new book through the circles of white supremacist hell.
The forgotten women’s rituals of Yom Kippur
Cemetery- and grave-measuring were part of the female clerical role in Ashkenazi Jewish life, and powerful tools of ancestral connection.
“I don’t think he would have the boldness to stand up in shul and say that”
In private messages to his former congregants, a leading British rabbi sounds off on race, gender and sexuality.
Spain’s Jews gave Vox an easy ride. Now they’re regretting it
Many Jewish organisations sat idly by while the far-right stoked Islamophobia. It was only a matter of time, however, before the party and its supporters came for them, too.
How not to tackle antisemitism on the left
Zero tolerance plus zero discretion equals zero results.
A faustian pact between Chabad and Orbán
How Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy found an ally in Europe’s most notorious antisemite.
If Black lives matter to us, Palestinian lives should too
George Floyd and Eyad Hallaq were killed in the same week. The British Jewish press has spilt much ink on the former – and barely a drop on the latter.
Will the last Jew to leave Europe please turn out the lights?
Joann Sfar has been called France’s “messiah of the comic book”. His buoyantly optimistic early work rewrote narratives of Jewish-Muslim animosity by sketching a shared history and delineating a path forward for interfaith relations. So why is Sfar’s new novel so full of despair?
Can film unteach Hasbara?
A new documentary, screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival this week, considers whether exposure to video footage of the plight of Palestinians can change the hearts and minds of Israel’s fiercest advocates.
Jewish antiracism must start at home
#JewsForBlackLivesMatter risks reinscribing Ashkenormativity.
Vashti speaks to Michael Rosen
A few months ago, Aron Keller spoke to the author and broadcaster Michael Rosen about his new book, ‘The Missing’, and much else besides.
The Board of Deputies’ neutrality on annexation will doom it
The Board gained prominence through its forthright stance on Labour antisemitism. Its mealy-mouthed response to annexation will condemn it to irrelevance.
Young Jews are reviving the Jewish left – will they succeed?
The seeds are being sown for a Jewish left whose desire for a better world might be enacted in a way that has a chance of breaking free from the tendency towards obdurate self-ghettoisation that has dominated the far left.