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Jacob Judah

JTA correspondent

A view inside the Pink Peacock in 2020. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Pink Peacock)
Posted inWorld

The Pink Peacock, Glasgow’s queer, Yiddish, pay-what-you-can cafe, shuts down after alleging antisemitism from ‘leftists’

by Jacob Judah June 20, 2023June 20, 2023

LONDON (JTA) — The Pink Peacock, a queer Yiddishist cafe in Glasgow, closed its doors June 14, as its owners said they had received an “astonishing amount of antisemitic vitriol” […]

A bookshelf in the town of Medzhybizh with texts in both Hebrew and Russian. (Photo/Jacob Judah)
Posted inWorld

Ukrainian Jews have historically spoken Russian. The war is changing that.

by Jacob Judah and JTA February 23, 2023February 23, 2023
A heavily damaged office building and the monument to the military jet in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, after the Russian bombing there, July 14, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Alexey Furman-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

‘We don’t know who is alive’: Concern mounts for Jews living in Russian-occupied Ukraine

by Jacob Judah and JTA October 18, 2022October 18, 2022
Zhanetta Butenko's house was partially destroyed when a rocket crashed through its roof in early March in Hostemel, Ukraine. (Photo/JTA-Jacob Judah)
Posted inWorld

‘The Jews have arrived’: In Bucha and other decimated towns near Kyiv, a Jewish group distributes sorely-needed supplies

by Jacob Judah and JTA September 14, 2022
Rabbi Shimshon Izakson at a Jewish center in Chisinau. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Community of Moldova)
Posted inWorld

A TikTok rabbi helps Jewish Ukrainian refugees feel comfortable in Moldova shelters

by Jacob Judah and JTA April 18, 2022April 18, 2022
A line of people stand near the Ukraine border
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At Moldovan border, Jews from Odessa wonder when they’ll be able to return home

by Jacob Judah and JTA March 8, 2022
Shoppers faced with empty produce shelves in Belfast, Jan. 14, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Charles McQuillan-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

A Brexit Passover food shortage is forcing the Jews of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work together

by Jacob Judah and JTA March 24, 2021
Joe Isaac, left, and Morgan Halleb are founders of the Pink Peacock cafe in Glasgow. (Image/JTA-Courtesy Pink Peacock)
Posted inWorld

Glasgow’s queer Yiddish anarchist cafe aims to spark a Jewish revolution in Scotland

by Jacob Judah August 26, 2020August 28, 2020

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