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Mar 2, 2017, 11:41 AM

#InternationalWomensDay: Let’s fight to protect women from violence

International Women’s Day is nearly upon us (though if you ask me, every day should be international women’s day but I don’t make the rules – yet). And I’m sure that before you have even finished reading this sentence someone has already fired off the...

Jan 5, 2017, 9:05 PM

When your privates become public: V is for vagina at Limmud

When I was 13, I had to go to Jewish studies classes at my Masorti synagogue in preparation for my impending Bat Mitzvah. The classes were aimed at giving us roots into our Jewish identity. I don’t remember much (I think we looked at a...

Nov 30, 2016, 9:54 PM

Whilst we attempt to fix the Left, we cannot take our eyes off the Right

When Thomas Mair was found with numerous films, books and artefacts about the Third Reich in his home, I doubt anyone was surprised. Jo Cox’s murderer’s conviction this week was a reminder of a country where a campaign about sovereignty and internationalism was not only...

Nov 17, 2016, 1:13 PM

Trump’s election is a punch in the gut

A punch in the gut. That’s what it felt like as the results of last Tuesday’s election trickled in around 2am. Obama’s declaration eight years ago that ‘change has come to America’ ago now seemed an age away. Logging onto social media a few hours...

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Emily is a Jewish anti-occupation activist living in the UK. She has written for the Independent, +972 Magazine and the Guardian.