Learning Talmud is a cultural issue. Wait – hear me out. I promise you, there’s more to it than anachronistic laws, bearded men arguing about turgid minutiae and airless study rooms full of greasy, pubescent boys. Although, if…
Sunday 23 February 2020: the streets of Delhi are ablaze. Hindu nationalists storm the predominantly Muslim slums in the North-East. With 40 dead, and more than 200 injured, Muslim businesses and homes were left looted and destroyed. In a wave of instigated violence, aided by…
“I used to know quite a few Jews,” said my ex Darren not long after we started dating. “Used to?” I laughed. “Yeah. I think they’ve all met sticky ends now,” he answered. “You know my great-uncle Vinny?” “The one who worked for…
Here we go again. I sit in front of an online form and I don’t know which “race/ethnicity” box to tick. I scroll through the options of acceptable identities, the categories that are meant to define me, and find myself outside of…
As much as anything, 'othering' is a Jewish trope. For me, growing up in multicultural London has helped me to understand racism and identity, but perhaps only a little about myself. British Jews sit somewhere between 'white' and 'other': not passing for white, but not entirely…
When I was a yeshiva student, I remember stumbling around the academy’s dining hall in a drunken stupor. This was not an outrageous crime, I was in good company. The room was filled with hundreds of such students and rabbis, all similarly shikkur (drunk). It was Purim and this was…
Last week the first ever JR Young Journalist Prize came to a close and we are delighted to announce the six writers who made our shortlist. Frank Allen, 20 Student at University of Exeter. Tasha Kleeman, 25 Postgraduate student…