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Let There Be Yiddish / Zol Zayn Yidish Presents: An Online May Day Sing-Along
Join klezmer musician Deborah Strauss and Yiddish teacher Kolya Borodulin for a May Day get-together with songs, stories, and dance in Yiddish and English.
First Fridays
First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.
Talk To Your Sheriff Movement Call
Trump thinks he can deputize local law enforcement to do his bidding. We’re building a movement to prove him wrong.
Build Power: Start a Democracy Circle
Join the Workers Circle to learn how to build grassroots power to demand the democracy we need.
The International Workers Order: From Popular Front to Cold War
How did the International Workers Order navigate Jewish and leftist political communities and organize for justice before, during, and in the wake of the second World War?
History of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society of New York
Discover the story of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, a cornerstone of New York’s Yiddish musical community. Founded by immigrant klezmer musicians, the PMBS evolved from a labor union into a mutual aid network and, eventually, a burial society. Drawing on Dan Carkner’s archival research and Dave Levitt’s family history, this talk explores its origins, purpose, and the notable figures who shaped its legacy.
Textbanking to Virginia
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for the Common Ground to text Black voters across Virginia with crucial voting information needed to cast their ballots in the special election on redistricting.
Textbanking to Virginia
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for the Common Ground to text Black voters across Virginia with crucial voting information needed to cast their ballots in the special election on redistricting.
How to be an Effective Advocate
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, learn about key federal legislation, and train on concrete actions you can take as an advocate for a better and more beautiful world.
Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention
The Trump administration is converting warehouses across the country into mass detention facilities — and communities are already fighting back. Join Indivisible, Detention Watch Network, and Disappeared in America for a one-hour national training call where you will learn the tactics and strategies to host peaceful actions in defense of immigrants in your community on April 14.
Navigating Climate Justice Work: A Panel with Adamah on Campus, Avodah, and the Workers Circle College Network
Join Avodah, Adamah on Campus, and the Workers Circle for a panel discussion on navigating social justice careers with a focus on climate and environmental justice. You'll hear from our community members on their career trajectories, guidance for young people entering the organizing and non-profit field, and what it means to do this work rooted in Jewish values. Our panelists' work dives into the intersection between social justice and climate activism.
Textbanking to Virginia
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for the Common Ground to text Black voters across Virginia with crucial voting information needed to cast their ballots in the special election on redistricting.
Phone Banking
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground as we phone bank weekly to reach Black residents of Wisconsin with crucial voter registration information ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election on April 7.
Let There Be Yiddish / Zol Zayn Yidish Presents: An Online Passover Sing-Along
Join klezmer musician Deborah Strauss and Yiddish teacher Kolya Borodulin for a Passover get-together with songs, stories, and dance in Yiddish and English.
First Fridays
First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.
Phone Banking
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground as we phone bank weekly to reach Black residents of Wisconsin with crucial voter registration information ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election on April 7.
Phone Banking
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground as we phone bank weekly to reach Black residents of Wisconsin with crucial voter registration information ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election on April 7.
How to be an Effective Advocate: Public Testimony and Legislation
This month, we will go over how to utilize public testimony as a tool to advocate for or against issues that matter to you on the federal, state, and local levels.
Phone Banking
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground as we phone bank weekly to reach Black residents of Wisconsin with crucial voter registration information ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election on April 7.
First Fridays
First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.
East End Jews: Curious Tales from London
Between 1884 and 1954, the London Yiddish press published hundreds of feuilletons (urban sketches) by local writers concerning Yiddish immigrant life in London's East End. These short sketches range from satirical and funny to poignant and moving. They cover a variety of themes, such as war between the sexes in the home, political arguments in cafes, and torah scrolls on the streets. Some of the sketch writers were well known in the Yiddish literary community, but others were only locally popular.
In this talk, Vivi Lachs and Sheva Zucker will perform some of the feuilleton sketches and mull over their themes.
Let There Be Yiddish / Zol Zayn Yidish Presents: An Online Purim Sing-Along
Join klezmer musician Deborah Strauss and Yiddish teacher Kolya Borodulin for a Purim get-together with songs, stories, and dance in Yiddish and English.
Phone Banking
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground as we phone bank weekly to reach Black residents of Wisconsin with crucial voter registration information ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election on April 7.
Build Power: Start a Democracy Circle
Join the Workers Circle to learn how to build grassroots power to demand the democracy we need.
Phone Banking
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground as we phone bank to reach Black residents of Wisconsin with crucial voter registration information ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election on April 7.
This week, we will be training you to run your own phone bank with members of your community. Can't make it to Monday nights? Host your own phone bank when it fits into your schedule!
How to be an Effective Advocate
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.
Radical Yiddish Song For This Moment: Beatmaking and Sampling as Politics with DJ Chaia
What does a techno groove have to do with a hundred-year-old Yiddish recording? Join DJ Chaia as she walks us through the world of Kleztronica, where Yiddish samples become vehicles for radical politics in the modern day.
First Fridays
First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.
Radical Yiddish Song For This Moment: Anti-Authoritarian Yiddish Sing Along with DJ Chaia
Want to learn about revolutionary Yiddish music? Join DJ Chaia and Daniel Carkner for a sing-along meets historical adventure.
Yiddish Sing-Along with Cindy Paley
Wrap up your day at Winter in Yiddishland with a joyful Yiddish Sing-along with Cindy Paley.
The Workers Circle Annual Lorraine Buch Yiddish Concert
Join us for the Workers Circle Annual Lorraine Buch Yiddish Concert.
Winter in Yiddishland
Join us at Winter in Yiddishland for online Yiddish classes, lectures, workshops music, and more!
Remembering the Holocaust
Join us for a discussion of the new bilingual Yiddish-English translation of Hersh Smolar's Yidn on gele lates — Jews Without Yellow Stars — a collection of actual and semi-fictional short stories of Jews trying to escape the Minsk ghetto and those who did escape and were able to join up with Soviet partisan groups.
Our panel includes Dr. Gennady Estraikh, together with the book's translator Ruth Murphy and editor Catherine Madsen.
Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable, Discovering My Father and Learning His Language
In this presentation, Anna Miransky will speak about her book, Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable, Discovering My Father and Learning His Language. This book has just won the 2025 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Yiddish. Anna Miransky’s father was the poet and fabulist Peretz Miransky, a member of Yung-Vilne, the last important Yiddish Literary group in Eastern Europe.
How to be an Effective Advocate
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.
First Fridays
First Fridays is our 30-minute monthly, social justice briefing and community building event.