They Tried to Kill Us. We Killed Them Instead. Let’s Drink.

The danger of not getting hammered on Purim

Tax Avoidance – who do you know doing it?

What we should be doing about the Philip Greens in our midst

The Talmud, The Tallit and the One State Solution

On the extraordinary rise of settler bi-nationalism

The State as a Social Relationship: Gustav Landauer Revived

Germany’s foremost anarchist (Jewish of course . . . ) for anglophones

Nationality – the key to Israeli Apartheid

Why is it that the Israeli High Court refuses to accept the concept of Israeli nationality yet Israeli passports have a category for Israeli nationality?

The Big Ethnic Love-In

Jewish Peoplehood seems to be a new buzzword in the Jewish world – but the concept is vacuous nonsense

A tour of punk Jews

Forget Joey Ramone. We have our own 3-chord stars.

Defamation – “What makes us special is that nobody can stand us.”

Yoav Shamir’s film and the lack within Jewish identity

Answering Critics of the Boycott Movement

“BDS is a movement that is premised on dialogue”

On Jewish Anarchism

From the Prophets to Chassidism

Incestuous unions

Think Oedipus has a complex? He’s got nothing on Bereshit.

Lost in Translation

On Text, Hybridity and Intermarriage

Veganism Without the Big V

Kosherism Without the Big K

A time to break ranks

Brian Klug on the case for disunity

Banning Comparisons between Nazism and Zionism

Less a vision, more a nightmare

We need radical new Jewish thinking for the 21st century – just don’t expect it from Rabbi Sacks

Who said god doesn’t write satire?

What if much of the nonsense that goes on in the name of Judaism stems from a basic inability to read?

Raising The Game

Most of us accept or reject Judaism on a highly simplistic and facile reading of the tradition. It’s time to get sophisticated.

A Rosh Hashanah Message

from Rabbi Geoffrey Cohen at Congregation Ahavat Parnassah.

Without a Floor to Stand On

Come on jews – its good to talk……..

Defamation

Yoav Shamir’s new film takes on the Anti Defamation League

Birthshite?

Jewdas suggest an alternative to the bonkers ‘Birthright’ programme

Pizza and Showtunes

Jewdas admires two Israeli post-holocaust documentaries

The Other 60th

While the jewish establishment goes wild about Israel’s 60th birthday, they omit half the story

A New Diaspora

Can you imagine a jewish diaspora without a centre? Jewdas explains why you must

The Animals that we Are

What’s really going on in the garden of Eden?

Value the Jew

A commendation from David Cameron? His values are jewish? Excellent.

Passing Jews

So where did the Jews go? Actually, they’re the new crusaders…

An Alternative Zion?

Do jews really need a state of their own to exercise power? What can we learn from our history?

Shabbat as Counterculture

Good (radical) shabbes: its time to reclaim the radical nature of shabbat observance. Here’s how

The day Judas rose up. Hail Jewdas!

The story of our namesake

Towards a Jewish Pacifism

Challenging the violence of historical orthodoxy

Sodomising the Torah

There’s more to sodomy than meets the eye

Joseph, Pharoah and Anticapitalism

A outlandish reading of the Joseph narrative

In Radical Tradition

Breaking through linguistic barriers towards a radical jewishness

Finding Chouchani

A mysterious talmudic ‘master’ points toward the necessary Jewish renewal of today

Opening the Gates of Toyrah

Towards a Torah of open gates and fuzzy borders

Translating Shema

Struggling with the first line of the shema? of course you are…..

After The Majority?

An ancient text has much to say on the politics of tyranny, ethnicity and the nation state