Jewish Identity
What happened at Mount Sinai?
This is what we think we know: the poorest people of many ethnicities came together at a mountain.
Jewish Identity
The Pickle
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.
The Jewish Left
In the name of faux ‘unity’, the Board is punishing progressives
It’s Phil’s way or the highway.
Jewish Identity
Blood on our doorposts, blood on our doorsteps
This Passover, there can be no turning away from Gaza.
The Pickle
To party until we cannot discern good from evil
A Purim drash
Culture
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
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
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.