Culture
Strange loops of history: the forgotten visions of Harry Fainlight
The reluctant beat poet's diasporic writing could guide us through our winding lineage and inspire Anglo-Jewish futures.
Jewish Identity
Jewish Identity
Hasbara’s doppelganger politics of indigeneity
Zionism in anti-colonial clothing.
The Pickle
A Diary Entry
"This claim is so cynical, so outrageous, such an utter and complete desecration."
Culture
Marking the future’s past
The history and purpose behind Vashti’s new logo
Jewish Identity
'Even now, I’m unpicking the indoctrination': Growing up in a Zionist youth movement
Vashti speaks to former Jewish youth leaders who have struggled to reconcile their values with their Zionist education.
Jewish Identity
Sometimes we win
The Exodus story teaches us that we must never lose sight of our ability to create a better world, no matter how impossible that may seem.
Jewish Identity
‘Again and again’: Transness and recognition
Transness implores us to know each other again, and again.
Jewish Identity
How transphobes became the voice of British Jewry
The same commentators who have marketed themselves as authorities on antisemitism are among Britain’s most prominent purveyors of transphobia.
Jewish Identity
On Jews, un-Jews, and anti-Jews
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid examines the hegemony of Zionism in today’s Jewish world and questions whether this is healthy for Jews or Judaism.
Jewish Identity
Eternal victims
Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews offers a worldview of unchangeable victimhood – and she’s wrong.
Jewish Identity
When the rabbis are anti-Zionists
In the US, a new generation of rabbinical students is shattering the communal consensus.
Jewish Identity
Holy chutzpah
Vashti meets the people behind the creation of Halakhic literature by and for trans Jews.