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How I Rescued Vladeck A chance encounter with Baruch Charney Vladeck, one of Jewish labor history's most notorious figures.

For our second piece Abraham J. Greenhouse shares and comments on a vivid article written (originally in Yiddish) by his great-grandfather of a 1905 chance encounter between his great-grandfather and Baruch Charney Vladeck, one of the most notorious figures of the Jewish labor movement.

Purim Offers Us the Power to Mock the Powerful Satire is one of the great weapons of the oppressed. When employed correctly, it has the power to evict the powerful from their palaces of authority and expose them as the pathetic and paranoid creatu...

Sholem aleykhem, khaverim

Happy belated Purim to our wonderful readers! In our latest piece, Ian Weiner discusses the space this holiday creates for silliness, mockery, and satire. The piece even includes a cheeky blessing thanking hashem for not making us Bret Stephens.

Purim sameach people

Hoo boy

If rightwing movements want to campaign today, they can simply search for Soros material on the net. Anti-Soros is a globalized, freely applicable and adaptable open-source weapon. Birnbaum calls it the "common denominator of the nationalist movement." It is no accident that Steve Bannon drummed up the opposition to Soros when he wanted to become involved in the EU elections. At this point, one must speak of an aspect of this story that is as strange as it is im-portant: the two Jewish political advisors construct a campaign to target a Jew by using antisemitic slurs. What Finkelstein and Birnbaum built tapped into one of the oldest antisemitic themes of western history: the evil,

The central message that unifies the far right around the world is the “George Soros is the puppet master who wants to destroy straight white Christian civilization” conspiracy theory. The person behind that fascistic meme was not only Jewish, but also gay.

There's still time. 😉

we figure as much but y'all are not "The New York Chapter of the International Labor Bund"

They don't call themselves Bundists but Bundism - doikayt, khavershaaft, & yiddishkeit - animates and infuses their work

Despite So-Called Ceasefire, “It’s Still a Genocide, Ongoing,” Says Gaza Poet Israel continues to carry out strikes inside Gaza despite the US-brokered “ceasefire” that went into effect in October.

"The situation in Gaza is so horrific. It’s still a genocide ongoing. Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect, Israel killed over 642 people, including 197 children. That’s like killing 10 classrooms of students in a public school in the United States."

FBI’s “Stand Down” Directive to NYPD on Jeffrey Epstein Investigations, and More The most comprehensive timeline to date of the publicly available record on New York law enforcement authorities’ action and inaction with regard to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and other potential co-c...

Me with a scoop/exclusive

Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show.

Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

Diaspora Hymn Isabel Frey imagines new Yiddish Bundist lyrics to Hatikva, the national anthem of Israel.

Next, we're sharing a song sheet by with music and lyrics to a fresh take on Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, re-imagined as "Diaspora Hymn," from the new album "Lider Mit Palestine." The song-sheet was made by Aatearoa, NZ-based Ramsey Margolis, with lyrics by Isabel Frey. Download & sing!

The Socialist Uprising in Austria A translation of the writing of Henryk Ehrlich in honor of the anniversary of the Austrian Civil War.

Sholem aleykhem khaverim.

Two items for you: The rhymes of history and song

First, as history gallops apace across the US and globe we're sharing another translation of Henryk Erlich's words, this time in a column on the events of Feb 12, 1934. Today's resistance and labor actions echo those days.

We don't like nationalism, whether its the Christian or the Jewish varieties

Do you have stories you want to share with diasporist Jews? Send us your submissions!

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

This is, as they say, Bad For the Jews

When Der Spekter was first getting going we asked ourselves whether we should set up in the Nazi bar and very quickly decided against it

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Christian nationalism from Rubio requires denying the historic differences between Spanish Catholic and English Protestant colonialism, and especially the extent to which the latter stigmatized the former for its racial creolism. Rubio, like Jews who try the same thing, wants one rung up the ladder

Yiddish story with definitions for the terms “to put, to place,” “to climb,” “shot,” “to kill by poison gas,” “dawn,” “packed up”

Sending this to ever elder who’s asked me “Why would you learn Yiddish now?”

Solidarity & support

Jewish mothers never quit

There was an odd period of time on here / in public discourse where if you acknowledged that there was a causal relationship between the longest military occupation in postwar history and the 10/7 attack you were accused of legitimating the latter. But nobody says this about Nat Turner and slavery.

NUESTRA AMÉRICA FLOTILLA CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA A ORGANIZACIONES COLABORADORAS ESTAMOS NAVEGANDO HACIA CUBA, llevando ayuda humanitaria vital para su pueblo. LA ADMINISTRACIÓN TRUMP ESTÁ ESTRANGULANDO LA ISLA, cortando el suministro de combustible, vuelos y bienes esenciales para la supervivencia. LAS CONSECUENCIAS SON LETALES, tanto para los recien nacidos y sus padres como para los ancianos y los enfermos. POR ESO ESTAMOS LANZANDO LA FLOTILLA NUESTRA AMÉRICA, que zarpará desde las costas de México en solidaridad con el pueblo cubano. Y LES INVITAMOS A UNIRSE, con una convocatoria abierta a organizaciones asociadas que puedan contribuir a esta misión histórica. EL ANUNCIO SE HARÁ PÚBLICO ESTA SEMANA, abriendo la iniciativa al apoyo público y a las donaciones para la ayuda que entregaremos. Y LA PRIMERA ASAMBLEA SE CELEBRARÁ LA PRÓXIMA SEMANA, reuniendo a todas las organizaciones asociadas en una coalición para distribuir funciones y responsabilidades. ¿SE UNIRÁ A NOSOTRXS? Para cualquier consulta, escriba al coordinador general adjunto David Adler a david.adler@progressive.international o a través de Signal al +44-7402-00459.

Our fates are bound together. Our fight against the imperialist stranglehold is from Gaza to Cuba is one in the same. So it should be no surprise that a Jewish organizer who was brutalized by Israel for his efforts to help the people of Gaza is doing this on behalf of the people of Cuba.

yeah, it's fascinating how Christians seem to see Jesus as having "freed" people from the burden of observing Shabbat

but like, most Jews LIKE observing Shabbat? it's a day of rest

then Christians went and made blue laws and all kinds of oppressive rules about what you can't do on Sunday anyway

In our last newsletter, we published a statement by the IJLB on U.S. imperialist intervention in Venezuela with commentary by Cassy Bishop, who highlights the Bund's failure "to critique its own Western and US American chauvinism."
A new piece this week seeks to challenge that narrative👇