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At Yiddish Week, a beloved language is as vital as ever

Up until COVID, I started my Tuesday evenings shlepping on the subway to the mid-Manhattan Workers Circle for a Yiddish class.  As a child, I’d studied the language in an afternoon shule/school in the Bronx. Now, decades later, I felt a quiet pull to study it once again.  Kolya Borodulin is the director of Yiddish programming at the Workers Circle as well as our Tuesday night teacher. He is warm and impassioned, pacing up and down our classroom, literally bending over backwards or dropping...

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Cost: Free Event Description In this interactive online experience presented by the Workers Circle, meet with activists from Alabama to take an honest look at the history of systemic racism in the health care system. Join  to learn about the victims of human experimentation and engage in meaningful dialogue with Lillie Tyson, head of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, and Michelle Browder of the  Mothers of Gynecology Movement.

Anti-Semitic incidents neared record highs in New York in 2019 and broke records in New Jersey, amid a broad nationwide spike in verbal and physical attacks targeting Jewish people, the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday. Nationally, the ADL said it recorded 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents last year, the most ever in 40 years of tracking such data. New York and New Jersey… NYPD May 11, 2020 New York City police say two people have been arrested for allegedly tearing face masks ...

The recent Pew survey found that nearly a quarter of American Jews — 1.5 million people — fall into the category.

Read this article in Yiddish On May 23rd at 1:00 pm EDT, the Workers Circle will host a book party for a new bilingual edition of stories by the short story writer, Salomea Perl, “The Canvas and Other Stories.” The discussion will be in English, with the readings in Yiddish and English. The volume includes seven stories both in the original Yiddish and in a facing-page translation by Ruth Murphy, along with a literary introduction by Justin Cammy, professor of Yiddish literature at Smith Co...

On May 15th at 7 pm EDT, the Boston Workers Circle chorus, “ A Besere Velt”, will perform a special online concert entitled “Singing for a Better World” with guest performers Polina Shepherd, Lorin Sklamberg, Anthony Russell, Daniel Kahn and Judy Bressler. “A Besere Velt” was founded in 1997 and is the largest Yiddish chorus in the world today, encompassing 90 members. The composer, Derek David, has served as conductor since 2018. The musical repertoire of the chorus expresses the i...

It’s been nine months since Seth Rogen agitated the Jewish community by expressing a sentiment increasingly common among his generation. You’d be forgiven for forgetting all about it. In August, the actor-writer appeared on Marc Maron’s podcast and said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” throughout his Jewish education. The backlash against Rogen’s presumed anti-Zionism was so pronounced that he went to Haaretz to set the record straight (after speaking to the Jewish Ag...

George Kalman combats antisemitism where he can. An 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, Kalman has been active in Holocaust education for over 25 years, speaking with a variety of men’s clubs, senior groups and students who want to learn about the past, he said. “Instead of giving a prepared talk, I conduct my meetings as a one-on-one Q&A format,” he said. “I tell them that I like hostile questions like, ‘I hear frequently that the Holocaust never happened, why?’ Excel...