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…