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From the Workers Circle of Northern California: Doikayt through Yiddish Song For the Worker's Circle of Northern California's 125th anniversary, a new adaptation of the classic Yiddish folk song "Ale Brider."

Next, we share a new adaptation of the rousing Yiddish folk classic "Ale Brider" by our very own Josh Waletzky, originally released in a new pamphlet by the Northern California Workers Circle for its 125th anniversary.

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From the Workers Circle of Northern California: Doikayt through Yiddish Song For the Worker's Circle of Northern California's 125th anniversary, a new adaptation of the classic Yiddish folk song "Ale Brider."

Next, we share a new adaptation of the rousing Yiddish folk classic "Ale Brider" by our very own Josh Waletzky, originally released in a new pamphlet by the Northern California Workers Circle for its 125th anniversary.

Free DC, Free Palestine: Finding Hope Against All Odds I am writing this to break the dam of unknowing and unseeing, to paint a “big picture” for those still clinging to their ignorance. There is, in fact, a horizon.

First, contributor Sam Sherman, who wrote for us last year about the relationship between sumud and doikayt, writes now about how we can possibly find hope at a moment that feels like a breaking point.

March to Free Mahmoud Khalil, to oppose deportations, and to Free Palestine on March 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Diane Krauthmer on Flickr.

Sholem aleykhem khaverim!

As we emerge from the days of awe and approach second anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, we share with you two new pieces that we hope will help pave the path forward to a world free from fascism, free from genocide, and free for everyone.

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

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A syllabus worth sharing!

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Coates is a class traitor and we love him for it!

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Muslims and Jews have a parallel problem: they both have religious concepts of unified global communities, “umma” and “am yisrael,” which do not map onto any empirical reality.

Even accounting for the radical disparity in numbers, with Muslims a far greater percentage of humanity, both communities

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Poll finds US Jews critical of Gaza war, Benjamin Netanyahu | The Jerusalem Post While Jews blame Hamas for the war, many have also waned in their support of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's war tactics, a Washington Post poll found.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

As the sun sets for Yom Kippur I am thinking of my friend Zukiswa Wanner, a celebrated writer who left her home in South Africa to join the Gaza Sumud Flotilla

I am thinking of all her comrades, who came from all over the world to defend life, that which is most sacred

Godspeed to all of you

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media.

The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters.

They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters.

Israel is once again breaking international law

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.

Democracy won 🙌🏼

this bicyclist deserves an award for excellence in urbanism

Notes on the Crises Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

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Thought some of you might find this interesting:
My cousin (many times... through BOTH of my parents), the current Rebbe of Viznitz Monsey, speaking against Birthright, Zionism, and uses a slur against Religious Zionists 🤷‍♀️

‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity

Muito que bem, arqueologia vintage.

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Whether the Bund: A Big Year IJLB representative Luca Schmit offers an update on the accomplishments of the Bund's revival so far and the challenges it faces.

First, a progress report from the International Jewish Labor Bund that discusses local and international organizing successes, what the Bund is working on now, and the challenges it faces as it soldiers on toward the future. www.derspekter.org/whether-the-...

Genuinely wonder how K-Hive types will grapple with Harris herself openly saying that being associated with her rabidly pro Israel boss and his rabidly pro Israel political impulses was a net negative.

Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.