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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 College. Perl’s stories are worth reading, Cammy writes, thanks to her unsentimental style and her d...

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 ideals of the Workers Circle: social justice, mentshlekhkayt (humanity), and activism. The songs of ...

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 Agency’s Isaac Herzog at the behest of his mother). Since then we’ve been more attuned to Rogen’...

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?’ Excellent question, let’s talk about it in detail.” Talking about antisemitism can be difficult...