The Religious Authorities We Deserve
In choosing service, humility and compassion over deference to power and wealth, Pope Francis offers a model of what Jewish communities should expect from their institutions.
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Ashrams for war criminals
In a rebuke of its anti-colonial past, India’s pursuit of Israel normalisation knows no bounds
In the name of faux ‘unity’, the Board is punishing progressives
It’s Phil’s way or the highway.
Against destiny
On not doing what you’re supposed to.
Treyf review
Part political diary, part love letter to messy Jewishness, Treyf is the radical film exploring what it means to be an outsider.
Fascism's fanzines
America’s right-wing Jewish press is cheerleading genocide abroad and repression at home.
Blood on our doorposts, blood on our doorsteps
This Passover, there can be no turning away from Gaza.
Yankl and the Beanstalk review
The saucy Jewish panto completes its March run
"An act of deeply structural state violence"
An interview with Hineinu activist Raviv Rose.
Reeves's unrelenting austerity
Labour's welfare cuts will be catastrophic for millions.
Machloket (Live) review
The next iteration of the story-sharing project, an immersive performance, raises how productive disagreements could undercut the damaging consequences of perceived, and actual, Jewish homogeneity.
Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
This was the point all along.
The Pickle
To party until we cannot discern good from evil
A Purim drash
The Pickle
Poetic justice is just the start
We must make Masafer Yatta's victory a reality.
The Jewish Left
In Czechia, dissenting diasporism forges new paths
A declaration of independence from the "voice of Israel in Europe."
Culture
Join Vashti for a Purim Jamboree!
Celebrate Purim with your favourite Vashti writers and editors.
Palestine-Israel
The first thing we say is Alhamdulillah
With Trump in the White House, Palestinians in Masafer Yatta resist a fresh wave of ethnic cleansing.
The Pickle
‘There is going to be a big, big redrawing of the map…where it ends up is anybody’s guess.’
Vashti speaks to Moshé Machover about the latest geopolitical manoeuvres encircling Palestine.
Culture
A new קינד on the podcast block
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the evolution of the diasporic language and the symbiosis necessary to its survival thus far and to its revival, today.
The Pickle
Dual-use incitement
A new nightmare world is taking shape.
The Pickle
Same old strange new world
You can hate the box and fear what Trump will find by thinking outside it.
Culture
Diaspora dramaturgy for the twenty-first century
A new generation of Jewish theatre-makers emerges.
The Pickle
The ADL is at the gates, courtesy of the Board of Deputies
A concerning partnership is developing between the ADL and the BoD.
Culture
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.