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Bougie babka
The gentrification of a yiddishe yeast cake.
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Finding trooshi
The Sephardi pickle time forgot.
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A Jew in a goy’s world
How could we *not* review a play called Pickle?
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Radicalising Moses
Reading The Prince of Egypt as a tale of inter-communal solidarity.
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Playing the Jew
is Jewface a thing?
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Yiddish for the 21st century
A new Duolingo course is training a small army to demand babka. Can it also heal communal divisions?
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Homos, Houmous and Hamantaschen: Vashti Meets Chanukah Lewinsky
On the eve of Purim, Vashti speaks to drag artist and queer cabaret creator Dex Grodner about Judaism and genderfuckery.
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Strangers in a strange Land: Jewish sci-fi, Afrofuturism and visions from Palestine
Considering Jewish, Black, and Palestinian writers' visions of persecution and liberation across the universe.
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Can film unteach Hasbara?
A new documentary considers whether exposure to video footage of the plight of Palestinians can change the hearts and minds of Israel’s fiercest advocates.
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Will the last Jew to leave Europe please turn out the lights?
Joann Sfar has been called France’s “messiah of the comic book”. Why is his new novel so full of despair?
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Vashti speaks to Michael Rosen
A few months ago, Vashti spoke to the author and broadcaster Michael Rosen about his new book, ‘The Missing’, and much else besides.