Essay
Bundism Today, Part 4: Af der Yidisher Gas
Jewish communities need to play an integral part in resisting trends of social alienation, with the bare minimum being the development of livable, walkable cities and neighbourhoods.
Essay
Doikayt as a Doorway to Mindfulness
How can we respond with care to global events when our ability to directly make a difference may be limited? Ramsey Margolis suggests that political activists use doikayt to bring themselves back to the present moment, strengthening the effectiveness of their activism.
Music
A Daloy Politsey Against ICE
If my Jewish grandparents were detained by ICE today, they’d be portrayed as poor people with too many kids who don’t “deserve” to be here.
Music
Tracing Ancestral Memory As A Collaborative Cross-Diasporic Practice
Electronic music is a way of asking what cultural traditions survive, who gets to hear them, and what political possibilities might be contained within their archives.
Essay
Re-Inventing the Jewish Workers' Bund: Yiddishkayt Socialism and the Politics of U.S. Post-Memory
In a time in which politicized nostalgia is everywhere, Molly Crabapple's "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" disrupts a narrative of a past that works only to secure a dystopian present.
Essay
German Catechism Versus Memory Culture
Germany’s scapegoating of the racialised Other is the end result of the absence of a critical memory culture that seeks to confront the past in all its ugliness.
Dispatches
Casa do Povo: The Practice of Doikayt and Living Memory in the Tropics
How a cultural institution founded by Jewish radicals in São Paulo, Brazil, is resisting urban privatization under the ethic of doikayt.
Dispatches
Why We Should Build Our Own Institutional Spaces - A Response to Bundism Today, Part 3: Doikayt
The beauty of doikayt as a guiding principle in our organizing is that the local context is essential to decision making.
Poetry
Israel is a Dybbuk; or, an Ana B'Ko'akh That We May Liberate Stolen Brakhos
A plea to Zionists to recognize the oppression they are visiting upon their fellows — to exorcise their minds and our own of this terrible dybbuk.
Essay
“Average Jews,” the United Front, and the Jewish Labor Committee: A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein
A major error of the Jewish Labor Bund and JLC, among countless others, was that they gave the lead to parties even more capitulationist and anti-Communist than they.
Essay
A Winding Path to Jewish Anti-Zionism
Christian Zionism, paganism, Jewish Orthodoxy, and anarchism were my stepping stones.
History
Jews in the American Labor Movement: The Bundist Legacy
What Bundist influence on American labor history can teach a new generation of Jewish workers