What would you ask the grandson of a prominent Bundist leader who died in Stalin's prison?

Remember, kids: If unions weren't an effective counter to the excesses of corporations, they wouldn't spend untold billions trying to stop them from coming into their shops.

it's funny, but occupy ended my career working as a jewish nonprofit professional. after i started criticizing the donor class, no one who benefitted from its largesse was interested in hiring me anymore. i wound up pivoting to web development for the for-profit sector, which has been tumultuous.

Who are Rabbis joining the demonstrations?

The first song that came to mind was this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBiD...

Play this as you read it borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/umru-u...

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

Happy Bundist Manifesto day! 88 years ago, at the 40th anniversary Congress of the Bund in Warsaw, a ‘Manifesto’ drafted by Bundist leader Henryk Ehrlich was adopted. This remarkable document was transcribed from an out-of-print book for us by frequent contributor Zach Smerin. A remarkable read.

by far the funniest use of russian suffixes in yiddish is in the word ABORTNIK, a guy who does abortions

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Solidarity is both righteous selflessness and self-defense. Our lives are bound-up with each other, as is our safety. Where we live is, there is our homeland.

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Potato Village guy didn't like it much when it was coded Jewish either

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore

11a) The main thing is *feeling Jewish* and feeling connected to the broader global Jewry in whatever way that means to you. 12) Long Story Short is the best representation I’ve seen of the “many ways to be Jewish” concept and I can’t wait for S2

Great thread!

it's just all so humiliating

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Every Jew in America is an immigrant on geologic timescales. Proud immigrant politicians, standing up for immigrants? Very Jewish

As a Jew who works on stuff like human rights and international law, it is such a breath of fresh air to have one candidate willing to find a first principles, human rights-based answer on Israel and repeat it endlessly for a very, very long year, trusting that many Jews understand and agree

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

Incredible!

one of the biggest issues in the study of magic in early christianity is our assumption that messiahs can't be magicians. gideon bohak's masterfully erudite _ancient jewish magic_ will set you right on that assumption, like it set me right too! 9/ www.cambridge.org/mx/universit...

Der Spekter has been covering the campaign to drop the ADL from schools and they just keep giving everyone more reasons to do so

“A lot of people are talking about how Jews in New York feel about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social... Well, I’m a Jew in New York! And I’m out here canvassing with my community for Zohran!” Watch Madeline’s story about why she’s a New York Jew for Zohran:

The Satmar community is condemning those who are calling @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social antisemitic: "In the streets there is a fear and hate campaign against Zohran Mamdani, Portraying him as if he is against Jews, IT IS FALSE, AND SUCH A CAMPAIGN IS DANGEROUS AND AGAINST THE TORAH WAY."

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

An old rabbinic teaching: "It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it."

From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.

*slams hands on table* I MEED IT TO LIIIIIIVE! Seriously, though, I need a print to hang up with all my other art in my studio where I make (among other things) little gay golems.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Weve known who this guy was for 1 month. He put on a good act for a month. Hes had a nazi tattoo for decades and would take the hardest right turn youve ever seen in your life the moment he tricks his way into power.

If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now: Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Oh.

who's "us"? did someone sneak into Platner's house a decade ago and give him a nazi tattoo? like...this isn't contrition, or trying to do better. this isn't acknowledging a mistake or admitting that people have reasonable concerns.

The White House nominated a guy for high office who said he has a "Nazi streak," and a huge number of rabbis are acting like the big threat to our safety is a mayoral candidate who listened to Jewish concerns and so started discouraging "Globalize the Intifada," and I feel like I'm going insane.

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Sholem aleykhem khaverim This week we're pleased to offer you two pieces to inspire our continued work to create a better world. First, PHL Bund organizer Cassy Bishop translates shul teacher Shloyme Davidman's vivid picture of the role of secular Yiddish shuln in Depression-era labor organizing.

The face-eating leopard has come for Dinesh D’Souza.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I’m pleased to see that #JewsDemandAction has invited Jewish people worldwide to add their name to this call for accountability and am proud to add my name. jewsdemandaction.org

NEW: A letter signed by over 460 Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, celebrities and political figures calls on the UN and heads of state to address “the underlying conditions of occupation, apartheid and the denial of Palestinian rights” and urges sanctions on Israel. www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...

Who gonna add the alt text to this?

Few California legislators have been as solid defenders of Israel's right to murder, steal land, and censor its critics under the guise of antisemitism defense as @scottwiener.bsky.social

Khaver Mamdani campaigns in Yiddish