Category: Issues

When the rabbis are anti-Zionists

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 26th June 2023

Illustrative photo of rabbis and other American Jews protesting outside a meeting of Israeli ministers in New York, during a demonstration organised by T’ruah. Credit: Gili Getz

In the US, a new generation of rabbinical students is shattering the communal consensus, writes Sam Stein.

Tags American Jews, generational divide, Israel-Palestine, rabbinical students, zionism

Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe The Pickle

Resisting Germany’s ‘Theatre of Memory’

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 20th June 2023

Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. Credit: Peter Maeck

In his new book, reviewed for Vashti by James Leveque, Max Czollek calls on Jews to cease cooperating with Germany’s memorialisation agenda.

Tags antisemitism, book review, germany, holocaust, memory politics

The Jewish Left The Pickle UK

The fall and rise of London’s Yiddish scene

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 8th June 2023
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Petticoat Lane Market in London’s East End, sometime in the 1920s. Credit: JJ Samuels / Historic England Archive

After decades of decline, the once thriving culture is bouncing back, writes Tamara Micner.

Tags Ashkenazi, east end, Europe, Jewish History, Jewish left, Yiddish

Antisemitism & Antiracism The Pickle

What’s behind the campaign to cancel Roger Waters?

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 5th June 2023
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Roger Waters performs in a Nazi-like costume. Credit: Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/MCT/Getty

Clive Gabay interrogates the calls to ban the rock star’s concerts.

Tags anti-racism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Berlin, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Nazi, palestine, Pink Floyd, racism, Roger Waters

Jewish Culture LGBTQ+ The Pickle

My live Jewish body

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 29th May 2023

Rachel Mars. Credit: Benkin photography

Emma Jude Harris meets queer Jewish performance maker Rachel Mars.

Tags Auschwitz, holocaust, holocaust memorial, inheritance, perfromance, queer, rachel mars

Jewish Culture LGBTQ+ The Pickle

Holy chutzpah

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 29th May 2023

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

Lexie Botzum meets the people behind the creation of Halakhic literature by and for trans Jews.

Tags gender, Halakhic, Lexi Kolanski, LGBTQ+, Talmud, Tans Halakha Project, Teshuva, Torah, trans

Middle East Palestine-Israel The Pickle

The Nakba never ended

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 13th May 2023

A protester holds the Palestinian flag in front of Israeli soldiers and border police officers during a demonstration marking the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, May 15, 2020. Credit: AP

And Britain remains complicit.

Tags anti-Zionism, deir yassin, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Nakba, palestine, racism, zionism

Europe The Far Right The Pickle

Italy’s new Jew-ish bogeyman

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 30th April 2023
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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”.

Tags antisemitism, elly schlein, Fratelli d’Italia, italy, jewish heritage, meloni, post-fascist, racism

Palestine-Israel The Jewish Left UK

Zoomers are breaking up with Zionism

Post author By Vashti Reporters
Post date 24th April 2023

Young British Jews belonging to the anti-occupation group Na’amod stage a protest against Israel's assault on Gaza. May 2021.

As Israel approaches its 75th anniversary, Robert Cohen looks at why young British Jews are less supportive of Israel than their parents and grandparents.