Worker Circle News Today

Good Monday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Jewish Federations of North America Chair Julie Platt being named interim chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s board of trustees, and feature an opinion piece by Steven Windmeuller and one by Rabbi Ana Bonnheim and Avidan Halivni. Also...

WASHINGTON—Several unions—including both U.S. teachers unions—two AFL-CIO constituency groups, Worker’s Circle, and approximately 100 other citizens’ and progressive groups have formed a mass coalition to get voters to pressure Congress to change the Supreme Court.

Silvia Wagensberg paints portraits of Yiddishists and her own version of Yiddish calligraphy.

WASHINGTON-Pro-abortion protesters outnumbered a lone pro-life protester by hundreds, but many still surrounded and screamed at him for ...

An extensive chronology of the life and activities of notorious Lithuanian-American anarchist, Emma Goldman.

When I heard that the Pew Research Center was releasing its new report on American Jewish identity, and that it had added more measures of expressing Jewishness than it did in its landmark 2013 study, I was sure that “learning Yiddish” or “engaging in Yiddish culture” would be included. After all, most American Jews are Ashkenazi, whose ancestors hailed from Yiddish-speaking towns in eastern Europe. (Yiddish was not mentioned the first time around.) I had good reason to expect this, sin...