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War and Basketball
The NBA’s investments expose how even the most mundane facets of American life, now entangled in speculative finance, enable warfare
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How traditional Jewish grief ritual can serve us as radicals
I couldn't find Jewish grief resources that reflected my values, so I created my own.
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Doikayt in Oakland: Putting the Pieces Together
Bundist ideas inspired new traditions rooted in Jewish culture, history, and values in NorCal.
History
For a Bundist Chanukah (the Best-Worst Jewish Holiday)
We can think of the struggles that might have been left out of history, so that new struggles can make history today.
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Free DC, Free Palestine: Finding Hope Against All Odds
I am writing this to break the dam of unknowing and unseeing, to paint a “big picture” for those still clinging to their ignorance. There is, in fact, a horizon.
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Plowshares into Swords: Religion, War, and Jewish Secularism
The Jewish Labor Bund, overwhelmingly secular and irreligious, and whose memory we are attempting to keep alive, spoke of a besserer, shenerer velt: a world free of conflict, which could only be brought about through socialist revolution.
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Why the Left Should Embrace Jewish Tradition
We cannot cede Jewish religion to the far right
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The Journey of Return: Exilic Solidarity in the Post-Oct. 7th World
It is fatal that citizens become de facto exiles in their own country. It is this internal exile that must be reclaimed today, transforming it from a passively suffered condition into a chosen and actively pursued way of life.
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Bundism Today: A Case for Jewish Autonomist Diasporist Socialism
A case for rebuilding the International Jewish Labor Bund in 2025 -- beyond admiration for its historical legacy.
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The Soviet Jew
This is a reprint of the introduction to a longer series, called "The Soviet Jew," currently being published on Yasha Levine's Substack, "Weaponized Immigrant." We encourage you to continue reading and support Yasha's work. Intro It was the morning of November 9,
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To Hold the Line: Sumud, Doikayt, and the Syntax of Shared Struggle
When Hashem, the Name, the Life of the Worlds, cries out to us: "Ayeka (where are you)?" We respond with: "Hineni (I am here)!" I am here to hold the line.
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Hakehillah Korea: Embracing Doikayt in Quiet Protest This Rosh Hashanah
“So my parents met in a hippie cult in the 70s. I’m only half Jewish. I’m not sure I should be here.” I say it with such dryness that you might be tricked into thinking I’m completely normal. The rabbi corrects me and says that I am