GEOFFRY COHEN’S FASCISM-SMASHING NEW YEAR
Don’t miss Jewdas’ anti-fascist party / Yom Kippur ball
Don’t miss Jewdas’ anti-fascist party / Yom Kippur ball
After our amazing Passover Seder yesterday we got a lot of requests to share our Hagaddah. We made it by cutting and pasting from various hagadot then added in our own bits and pieces. Feel free to change it and use it for your own seders! The Jewdas Hagaddah 2016 Next year in Costa del … Continued
In a world exclusive, Jewdas has unearthed a new chapter of the New Testament, the book of George, in which Jesus abandons his previous obsession with feeding and healing people and becomes a compassionate Conservative. The book will soon be published in full, in an exclusive publishing deal with the Daily Mail, but in the … Continued
Once upon a time, in the faraway depths of the internet, somewhere in between neo nazi websites, the Israeli Government’s PR twitter and the ‘all male panel’ tumblr, there lived a king called Gilad Shatzmon. Gilad lived with his partner, Trashty, but they were having some problems. Scrolling through twitter one day, Gilad saw … Continued
Tu Bishvat, the New Year of the trees, is a time to celebrate nature, growth, divine spirit and to welcome the earth back to life. The festival is marked by planting trees and eating fruits, and in kabbalist tradition a seder – a dinner, preceded by the retelling of stories handed down through generations. Since … Continued
Hey, did you know that every year thousands of Jews from around the world get to travel to Israel on free ten day trips to learn about how amazing Zionism is? It’s called Birthright and it’s one of the ugliest examples of how Zionism and a one-sided view of Israel-Palestine gets forced onto young Jews. … Continued
Hola friends and comrades! It is I, Maimonides, noted 13th-century rabbi, physician, philosopher, author of the Guide to the Perplexed and general PARTY ANIMAL!!! Which animal, you ask? I’ll get back to you as soon as I have worked out how to classify the entire natural world in a clear and rigorous hierarchy. I have … Continued
Jewdas’ slightly more respectable baby sibling Babel’s Blessing has an announcement for you all! Register for Yiddish, Hebrew & British Sign Language classes 2016 – and help us train the next generation of radical ESOL teachers Here’s a suggestion for anyone struggling to think of a New Year’s resolution, or feeling themselves sliding into that … Continued
On the 26th of November the JNF held a themed “Bedouin Nights” party in London, coincidentally the same night it razed the Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 91st time. Promising a “unique Bedouin style venue” with cocktails and shesha, the event was to raise money for Desert Stars which is a JNF project for young Bedouin … Continued
Affirmations for Transgender Day of Remembrance This year’s list of names is again long and painful, again full of stories, and again, disproportionately stories of violence against trans and gender non-conforming people of colour. We honour them, we remember them. (printable list of known names here) Whether or not we have a minyan to say … Continued