Judaism
A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors
November 15, 2023“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."
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Are there Jewish alternatives to Zionism?
November 9, 2023The history of the bundist movement and the number of Jews protesting Netanyahu today provide an answer.
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‘Our grief is not a weapon’: Progressive U.S. Jewish leaders demand Gaza ceasefire
October 18, 2023Brooklyn rabbi: “We are grieving, but we are fighting to prevent genocide. Our grief is not a weapon.”
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The Jewish Labor Bund, a history in comic book form
October 17, 2023The Bund is no great mystery to serious students of modern Jewish history, though a full understanding of its achievements may still be limited to those who can read Yiddish.
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