Bundism Today, Part 1: Bundist Organizing Principles

If Bundists are known in local Jewish communities as radicals hated by the establishment, but respected for their strength and inspiring in their message by a significant part of the general Jewish population, we will be in a fantastic position.

Peter Beinart's Fantasy of Persuasion

Peter Beinart's new book employs Jewish scripture and tribalism in an attempt to win over Zionists. But can such arguments ever convince the blind?

Ungodly Psalms: Protocols of the Youth of Zion

Resolution 1a. Whereas we have lived long enough in the world of our elders, as laid out in Appendix A, the book of Ungodly Psalms; whereas, moreover, we have grown tired of reading and living the fire and floods, the ruin, wandering, exile, ash and mud, etc.; be it here

Doikayt in the Desi Diaspora

April 25, 2023, was a typical spring Tuesday outside the California State Capitol: thermostats across Sacramento climbing well into the eighties by noon, harried staffers’ and lobbyists’ hair and makeup wilting in the heat as they ducked out to grab to-go salads from one of the many nondescript lunch cafés

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.

Ungodly Psalms: Minor Prophecy of Joseph during the Reign of Benjamin

You think the enemy is writhing in pangs of death, but those are birth travails

Is Zionism a Liberating Democratic Movement?

"Zionism has all along been a Siamese twin of anti- Semitism and every kind of nationalist chauvinism."

Diaspora Dispatches Vol. 2

In the past several months, Bundists around the world have been actively organizing grassroots educational and cultural events as well as solidarity actions in their respective areas.

Ungodly Psalms: Covenant of the Distant Cousins of Israel

Editor's note: this is the third poem in the series "Ungodly Psalms" by Joe Grim Feinberg. Don't miss the previous parts in this series, "Report from the Cowardly Scouts on the Condition of the Land" and "Ten Insubordinations." Our god

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.

Ungodly Psalms: Report from the Cowardly Scouts on the Condition of the Land

This is the second part in a series of poems by Joe Grim Feinberg titled "Ungodly Psalms." Click here for the first part in the series. Lord General! The land up there is fine but deadly. Its valleys may be moist and soft and sweet. Milk indeed  flows

From the Cafe Bund Library: An Appeal to Jewish Socialists and Diasporists, Wherever You Are

The Cafe Bund library is seeking contributions of books, pamphlets, zines, and periodicals.