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Jewish Culture LGBTQ+ The Pickle

My live Jewish body

Rachel Mars. Credit: Benkin photography
Rachel Mars. Credit: Benkin photography

Emma Jude Harris interviews Rachel Mars

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Jewish Culture LGBTQ+ The Pickle

Trans Halakha is here

Students studying at SVARA yeshiva, which hosts the Trans Halakha Project. Credit: Jess Benjamin.
Students studying at SVARA yeshiva, which hosts the Trans Halakha Project. Credit: Jess Benjamin.

Halakhic literature by and for trans Jews, Lexie Botzum reports.

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Middle East Palestine-Israel The Pickle

The Nakba never ended

Palestinian holds national flag in fron of Israeli border police during a protest marking the 72nd anniversary "nakba," or catastrophe, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 15, 2020. Credit: AP
Palestinian holds national flag in fron of Israeli border police during a protest marking the 72nd anniversary "nakba," or catastrophe, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 15, 2020. Credit: AP

And Britain remains complicit.

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Europe The Pickle

The Soviet-Jewish experience, revisited

Young Russian-Jewish communists M. Khatayevitch and Shushanna Khaimova register their marriage in Kuba, Azerbaijan, Dec. 1932. Credit: Sojuzfoto; Russphoto A.P. Prins; Unionbild.
Young Russian-Jewish communists M. Khatayevitch and Shushanna Khaimova register their marriage in Kuba, Azerbaijan, Dec. 1932. Credit: Sojuzfoto; Russphoto A.P. Prins; Unionbild.

A new book presents ambivalence as its core motif.

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Europe The Far Right The Pickle

Italy’s new Jew-ish bogeyman

Elly Schlein, center, gestures at the headquarters of her electoral committee, after the announcement of the partial results of the Democratic Party primaries in Rome, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Schlein, a 37-year-old U.S.-Italian national and longtime left-wing political operative, has defied polls to become the first woman to head Italy’s opposition Democratic Party. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)
Elly Schlein, after the announcement of the PD primary results, in Rome, February 26, 2023. ROBERTO MONALDO / AP

Elly Schlein is taking on Meloni’s “post-fascists”.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism The Pickle UK

Braverman v the Board

Home secretary Suella Braverman, who gave the keynote speech at the Community Security Trust’s annual dinner on 29 March. Credit: Sky News
Home secretary Suella Braverman, who gave the keynote speech at the Community Security Trust’s annual dinner on 29 March. Credit: Sky News

What happens when Jews won’t be good?

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The Jewish Left The Pickle

Justice for a Jewish anti-apartheid activist

Jonathan Rosenhead in conversation with Eli Machover at his home in north London. Credit: Josh Cohen for Vashti Media
Jonathan Rosenhead in conversation with Eli Machover at his home in north London. Credit: Josh Cohen for Vashti Media

Eli Machover meets Professor Rosenhead to trace the thread of anti-racism through his life, and reflect on what the struggle against South African apartheid can teach us today.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism The Jewish Left The Pickle

Beyond Black and Jewish nationhood

Paul Gilroy. Credit: Eivind Senneset
Paul Gilroy. Credit: Eivind Senneset

Paul Gilroy’s radical Jewish influences.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism The Far Right The Pickle UK

Never again, or never compare?

Gary Lineker at The Roundhouse in September 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Gary Lineker at The Roundhouse in September 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Gary Lineker has a better grasp of the lessons we should be taking from the Holocaust than many of our communal leaders.

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Middle East The Jewish Left The Pickle

After Huwara

Flames rise in the Palestinian town of Huwara as Israeli settlers carry out a pogrom.
Flames rise in the Palestinian town of Huwara as Israeli settlers carry out a pogrom. Credit: Hisham K. K. Abu Shaqra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

What happens when the pogroms are by Jews?