Jacob E. Lazarus

Dec 10, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Kendall Gardner |Francesca Newton |Jacob E. Lazarus |M. Rosen

When discussed at all today, the poet Harry Fainlight is remembered as a countercultural casualty par excellence. As noted in one of the only critical appraisals of his work to date, "both the avant-garde and the establishment championed" Fainlight, and from a distance it is easy to see why. By the age of thirty, he had cruised with Allen Ginsberg, boozed with Jack Kerouac, and posed for Andy Warhol, as well as managing to feud with everyone from Robert Graves to Ted Hughes.

Dec 6, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton |Jacob E. Lazarus |Joana Cavaco |Kendall Gardner

The Pickle — 5 min read After bombing Lebanon for thirteen months and killing over 4,000 people, Israel is finally allowing Lebanese refugees to . On Wednesday of last week, Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, promising to withdraw its forces from the country within 60 days. Historically, Israel has ignored numerous promising ceasefire agreements, and, so far, this deal has proven no exception.

Dec 2, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton |Jacob E. Lazarus |Joana Cavaco

In the mass of photographs and footage from pro-Palestine protests shared around the world this year, one group seems to have garnered particular attention: older women. They’ve been captured marching, demonstrating outside political institutions, targeting weapons factories, sharing lessons from earlier activism at university encampments, and standing up to the police, with captions and placards often making a point of their age and sex. To point this out is not, I hope, to be tokenistic.

Nov 29, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Jacob E. Lazarus |Joana Cavaco |Francesca Newton |Martin Saps

The Pickle — 4 min read The question of assisted dying has a particularly Jewish dimension in my head, probably because the recently-retired rabbi of the shul I grew up in, Jonathan Romain, is also a prominent campaigner in its favour. As the former chair of Dignity in Dying, Romain has drawn on his experience supporting people at the end of life to argue that “letting go of life can be the right and moral decision.