Communism
In this classic Jewish children’s book, a Yiddish-speaking dog learns to reject racism
As America continues its intensified reckoning with questions of racial justice, parents and educators are keenly aware of the need to speak to children about race in ways that feel authentic and relatable. The Jewish community can look to Yiddish literature for models of antiracist storytelling that took shape long before the storied alliances of the 1960’s civil rights movement. In one key episode, one of the most beloved characters in Yiddish children’s literature proves himself susceptible to unexamined bias and offers a model of how to overcome it.
What we can learn from a communist puppy puppet
“I call him leftist Lassie.”
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.