What are you thankful for? We’re thankful for 30 minutes of holiday vocabulary with Kolya Borodulin, the Workers Circle's Director of Yiddish Programming. Enjoy a lively community gathering filled with games, songs, prizes, and festive fun!

Join the Workers Circle to learn how to build grassroots power to demand the democracy we need.

Join organizers, hosts, and participants from across the country for a national debrief and strategy session following the Disappeared In America Weekend of Action (November 1–2 and surrounding dates).

Join Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, one of the nation’s leading legal voices for LGBTQIA+ rights and co-counsel in the pivotal DeBoer v. Snyder case that helped pave the way for Obergefell, for a powerful conversation about what’s at risk and what we can do to protect marriage equality today.

Across a century, the Call chronicled the Jewish experience in America — from presidential elections to labor and civil rights, from debates on assimilation and secularism to reflections on the Holocaust and the plight of Jewish refugees.

This November, we’re opening the doors. We’ve built a fully digitized, keyword searchable Call Archive that will be accessible to all.

Join us for Living History: Voices from the Call Archive — a one-hour event featuring dramatic readings by acclaimed actors.

Want to learn about the queer, Jewish, and labor history of one of New York City's most iconic neighborhoods? Join the Workers Circle and the Close Friends Collective for a free walking tour of the Lower East Side.

First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.

Join the Workers Circle every Monday starting August 18 as we make calls to voters of color in Virginia ahead of their important elections this fall.

The rules around charitable giving, taxes, and estate planning continue to evolve. In this webinar, attorneys Jonathan Gudema, Esq., and Stacy Sulman, JD, will explain what the latest changes mean for you.

Join the Workers Circle College Network — our community of college students and young activists fighting for a truly multiracial and multicultural democracy — for an impactful phone bank. In collaboration with the Center for Common Ground, we'll be calling Black voters in Virginia to share key, non-partisan voting information. A training will be provided, and first-time phone bankers are welcome.

We are living through a defining moment for our country.

Across the nation, immigrant families are being targeted, detained, and disappeared — and these attacks are being weaponized as part of a broader authoritarian campaign to divide communities, silence dissent, and erode our most basic freedoms.

The Disappeared in America Weekend of Action — happening November 1 – 2 — is our collective response. Join this national call to learn how you can host or participate in an event, connect with others across the country, and help build a movement rooted in solidarity, compassion, and the defense of fundamental freedoms.

Each month, Effective Advocate provides a chance for us to gather with a warm community for updates on how current events are affecting our democratic system, learning about key federal legislation, and training on concrete actions you can take as an advocate for a better and more beautiful world.

New to the Workers Circle? Let’s get you connected. Join our staff and other new members over coffee or lunch on Zoom. Discover all the ways you can dive into our Social Justice, Yiddish, and Jewish Cultural programs.

On October 18, millions across the country will come together with one clear message: America belongs to us. No Kings. No Crowns. No Thrones. No Dictators!

Join the Workers Circle to learn how to build grassroots power to demand the democracy we need.

Celebrate this Jewish harvest holiday for 30 minutes with Yiddish vocabulary from Kolya Borodulin, the Workers Circle's Director of Yiddish Programming. Enjoy a lively community gathering filled with games, prizes, and festive fun!

First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.

Our virtual Yom Kippur program is a time of deep reflection, remembrance, and recommitment to justice and community. Join friends from around the world to honor tradition while embracing the values that unite us.

Each month, Effective Advocate provides a chance for us to gather with a warm community for updates on how current events are affecting our democratic system, learning about key federal legislation, and training on concrete actions you can take as an advocate for a better and more beautiful world.

Join us for a joyful and reflective virtual gathering that brings our global community together to welcome the New Year.

Join us for an Open House on Saturday, September 20.

Join us for an Open House on Saturday, September 20.

Five Black students rode a segregated carousel in 1960, igniting one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protest in US history. Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is the untold story of the Jews they marched with, the Nazis they provoked, the Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became. The Workers Circle plays an important role in this award-winning film. Join us at the IFC Center for a screening to be followed with a Q/A featuring filmmaker Ilana Tractman, Workers Circle CEO Ann Toback, and activist Rev. Mark A. Thompson, moderated by justice advocate Joan Grangenois-Thomas.

The second of a two-part conversation with Emily Tamkin, contributing columnist at the Forward and regular contributor at Slate and the Washington Post, among other publications, and author of Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities and The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society, on the current critical crossroads that the American Jewish community is facing in a post-October 7th world and in the midst of a second Trump Administration.

Over the course of 10 hours, Yiddish performers, writers, teachers, and culture-makers from across the globe will share their favorite songs, poetry, and recollections, including rarely seen historical footage of memorable performances from decades ago.

The first of a two-part conversation with Emily Tamkin, contributing columnist at the Forward and regular contributor at Slate and the Washington Post, among other publications, and author of Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities and The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society, on the current critical crossroads that the American Jewish community is facing in a post-October 7th world and in the midst of a second Trump Administration.

In this workshop/walking tour through the Workers Circle section of Mt. Carmel Cemetery, we will learn about Jewish history and how to perform the soul candle rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs.

Join the Workers Circle community, DC residents, community-based organizations, and allies from across the nation for a powerful march and rally to demand an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.

First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.

This Labor Day we are standing strong against billionaire exploitation and corporate domination. Working people, parents, students, and community members will rise in every corner of the country to continue the fight for dignity, justice, and public investment in our lives, not billionaire empires.