Communism
How Yiddish Education Got Its Start In America, From Zionism To Socialism
In order to develop a modern pedagogical system for Jewish education, it was important to answer a number of difficult questions.
How The Russian Revolution Of 1917 Transformed The Jewish People Forever
Why the Jews really turned to the Bolsheviks; how religious Jews stayed observant, and all about the secular Yiddishist experiment
Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?
My experiences growing up in the USSR and later in the U.S. taught me how awful communism really is — and how whitewashed its horror is among liberals
This Russian TV Show Claims Trotsky Was Real Force Behind 1917 Revolution
Historians say that the portrayal of Trotsky “smells like anti-Semitism.”
Game Show Host Chuck Woolery Accused Of ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweets About Jews And Communism
“Amazing to me, I point out that Marx and Lenin were Jewish, Fact of history, and now I’m being called anti Semitic? why do people do this?”
WATCH: Old Jewish Lefties Sing ‘The Internationale’ In Yiddish
In honor of International Workers’ Day, here’s an incredible video of an elderly crowd of Eastern European Bundists singing The Internationale.
Were Marx And Engels The Original Odd Couple?
Raoul Peck, director of “I Am Not Your Negro,” also recently released a film about the young Karl Marx.
Alan Gross Calls for Closer U.S. Ties With Cuba
Alan Gross, who was imprisoned for five years in Cuba for his work connecting its Jewish community to the Internet, marked the one-year anniversary of his release pledging to advance warmer U.S.-Cuba ties.
The Secret Idealism of My Grandma Rose of Texas
Grandma Rose was cranky till the day she died. It was only later that Deborah Kolben discovered that her tough-as-nails grandmother from Texas was a bleeding heart revolutionary.
Throwback Thursday: From Stalinist to US Spy
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives.
