Forthcoming Events:

Half a shekel
times are hard for moneylenders so its time for jewdas, the northern rock of the jewish world, to demand its pound (of flesh)

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To coincide with London fashion week, Jewdas is planning a shambolic counterpoint, full of reworked youth movement t-shirts, tallis dresses, and liturgical lingerie. Bring your old clothes and artefacts (and ideas) ready to be fashioned into something new.

and if we’re really organised…A Yom Kippur celebration that returns  the day to its radical roots; more politics than praying, more Derridean than devotional...If you like the sound of any of these, and would like to help make them become a reality, get in touch!  Ask not what your countercultural anarchic underground Jewish collective can do for you but rather...

Previous events:

Night of ritual slaughter
jewdas celebrated chanucah in style with a recreation of the temple complete with high priest, palwins and sacrifice.

Treifpotting
film festival featuring on screen Jewish radicalism and the European premiere of the documentary Young Jewish and Left

Glastonbury Festival
Rabbi Jeffrey takes it upon herself to educate revellers through study sessions, tefillin tasters and free circumcision

Rootless Cosmopolitan Yeshiva
A night of radical Jewish thought; jewdas'twisted Beit Midrash for postmodernity.

Elephants of Zion
celebrating 350 years of anglo jewry with five rooms of halacha, hip hop dance, film, and borscht

Shul's Out!
jewdas' first outdoor event on the shores of the giant mikvah that is brighton beach.

Punkpurim
punkpurim; when jewdas brought the countercultural revolution home to the eastend.

 

Jaques Derrida. Huge figure in modern philosophy, from a Sephardic-Jewish family. Famous for creating concepts such as 'deconstruction' and 'diferrance' and was apparently obsessed with his circumcised member.Karl Marx. Known for a) founding communism and b) his powerful beard.Emma Goldman. American Jewish anarchist, feminist and inspired radical.Martin Buber. Philosophical powerhouse and expert on Hasidism. Supporter of bi-national state for Arabs and Jews in Palestine.Rosa Luxembourg. Revolutionary, but unorthodox socialist. Leader of the German Spartacist uprising of 1918.Leon Trotsky. Bolshevik leader who promoted worldwide revolution. Was assaninated by Stalin's henchman in Mexico, demonstrating the risks of beach holidays.Albert Einstein. The big cheese of twentieth century science. Famous for his theory of relativity and refusing to become president of the state of Israel.
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