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.

Doikayt in Oakland: Putting the Pieces Together

Bundist ideas inspired new traditions rooted in Jewish culture, history, and values in NorCal.

IJLB Issues Statement on Venezuela and US Imperial Intervention

In the past, the Bund has avoided supporting national self-determination on principle. This error has led Bundists away from the working class, and into opportunist support for Imperialist powers and wars.

Daniel Kahn on Radical Yiddish Autonomy, Bundism, and Productive Provocation

The singer-songwriter sits down with us at Yiddish New York to talk about his new album and what it means to sing in Yiddish today.

Introducing The ‘Tuers’: Translations from Doyres Bundistn, Part 3: Anne Braude-Heller

The doctor-activist is often publicly remembered for her heroism in the Warsaw Ghetto, and less for her political activity with the Bund before 1940.

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.

Der Spekter needs YOU: 2025 in review

The future of Bundism and how to get involved with Der Spekter.

Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union (Bund) in Poland

Baited by Polish nationalism and scoffed at by Jewish nationalism, the Bund never grew tired of calling upon the Jewish masses; ‘‘Do not succumb to despair; do not surrender to any feeling of panic!’’

Word on the street is…

An article by Philadelphia shul teacher Shloyme Davidman reveals the extent to which secular Yiddish shuls were embedded in in the everyday lives and struggles of the working class.

Brothering Ketubah

Blessed is the Oneness, Spirit of the Universe, Which brings us Together and makes us more Whole

From the Editors: Two Years

Dear readers, It is a harsh reality that we have now surpassed two years of genocide in Gaza. A year ago, on October 7, 2024, we wrote a similar editorial whose words we may repeat here: “we bear the moral stain of wanton slaughter of tens of thousands of women

From the Shtetls to Palestine

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressor.