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Interview Jewish Culture The Jewish Left UK

Vashti meets Pink Peacock, the world’s first queer Yiddish cafe

The founders of the Glasgow establishment, due to open later this year, share their vision of luxury for all.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Report UK

“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.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe Report

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.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Essay UK

How not to tackle antisemitism on the left

Zero tolerance plus zero discretion equals zero results.

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Middle East Palestine-Israel Report The Jewish Left

“Resist”: The political street art of Jerusalem

A reading of the politics written onto the city walls.

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Europe Report The Far Right

A faustian pact between Chabad and Orbán

How Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy found an ally in Europe’s most notorious antisemite.

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Opinion Palestine-Israel UK

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.

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Middle East Palestine-Israel Report

Water, water everywhere

A contest over a spring exposes Israel’s water apartheid.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Europe Jewish Culture Review

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?

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Interview The Jewish Left UK

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.