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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 to one knee, and doing all manner of spontaneous gymnastics to make a point.

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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 off Jewish people in Brooklyn. The NYPD arrested the perpetrators some time after the Sunday night a...