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Cultivating a proudly progressive, diverse, and inclusive community rooted in Jewish culture and social action for more than a century.
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The Workers Circle @workerscircle.bsky.social · Jan 10
Hi there 👋, Bluesky! We’re the Workers Circle, a 125-year-old Jewish social justice organization focused on Yiddish language, social justice, and Jewish culture. Click that follow button to join us in building a better and more beautiful world for all/a besere un sheynere velt far ale (in Yiddish).
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As Noelle Damico, our Director of Social Justice says, join us at Foley Square TODAY (Oct 9) at 5:30 PM for an Emergency Protest. #ICEOUT #DemandDemocracy #socialjustice
October 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Get involved!!! www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
October 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Read the full article from @spotlightpa.org here: www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/10...
#TalkToYourSheriff #DemandDemocracy #WorkersCircle
October 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Blanche promised to make Dobbs “permanent in every single state,” and the White House wants that quiet until after November 🤬
Your opinion apparently expires on election night, and women in every state would pay for it. Furious doesn’t cover it.
#CostOfTrumpsCorruption
October 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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We are thrilled to share that our Aspiring Young Authors Award is open for submissions! bit.ly/4i8A2bU

This peer-led writing competition and publication honor is open to young Jewish writers between the ages of 13 and 22.
October 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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#DAFDay 2026 is here. A nationwide celebration of generosity through #DonorAdvisedFunds.

When you make a #DAF gift to the Workers Circle today, you’re helping us build a better and more beautiful world for all.

🧡 Join us and be part of the movement: circle.mygiftlegacy.org/gifts/donor-...
October 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Since the October 7 attacks, countless lives have been destroyed in Gaza and Israel. We mourn the loss of 1,200 Israelis killed on October 7, and more than 74,000 Palestinians in Gaza who have been killed in the three years since.
October 7, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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The #JewishLaborBund was a significant leftist Jewish political organization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The #Bund promoted internationalism and a common class struggle, while also recognizing Jews as a distinct national group.
October 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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You know how Republicans are “distancing themselves” from Trump? They’re not distancing themselves from his money—which is behind pretty much every attack ad you’re seeing right now. They can pretend they’re not, but the funding— and every vote they’ve ever taken – – tells a different story.
October 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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In honor of the founding of the Jewish Labor Bund, this week’s article from the Call comes from the November 1972 edition and provides a brief history of the organization.

Learn more about the impacts of the Bundists on the Workers Circle at thecall.org.
#TheCall #WorkersCircle #Yiddish
The Bund r I ^HIS year marks the seventy-fifth -*■ anniversary of the founding of the Bund, that is, of Jewish socialism in Eastern Europe. There were adherents and advocates of socialism in the Pale of Settlement in czarist Russia, and elsewhere too, but it was in 1897, at an illegal conference in the city of Vilna, that the basis was laid for what was to become a powerful and glorious movement. The role of the Bund among the Jewish workers and, indeed, among the Jewish masses as a whole, constitutes a magnificient epic of courage and vision in the history of our people. It is necessary to remember that the vast majority of our people at that time still lived in Eastern Europe, primarily in czarist Russia, an empire characterized by tyranny and despotism. The lot of the Jewish masses was altogether deplorable; the rights of citizenship were not accorded them, they were not allowed to reside in a large part of the country, were excluded from numerous economic areas, and were cut off from general education by a rigorous quota, particularly in the universities. Poverty and despair were rampant in the Jewish towns and villages and among the Jewish workers in those larger cities where they were per- mitted to stay. In 1881, Alexander II was assassinated and, as was to be expected, in the midst of the sinister reaction, the Jews were singled out as easy victims and targets of hate. There was nothing abstract about this hate; it concretized itself in a series of bloody pogroms, instigated by the regime and kept at white heat by the forces of anti-Semitism. It was in this sort of atmsophere that the Bund came into existence. The moment was ripe for it, and quickly it spread throughout Russia proper, Lithuania, and Poland (most of which was a part of Russia) ; there was hardly a Jewish community that did not have a group of the Bund. Where there was no group, its influence and inspiration and guidance were felt nonetheless, raising the horizon of hope for the Jewish masses and all who sympathized with them. The Bund was illegal, and so was the socialist literature that it published. The groups met clandestinely in forests or in cellars, most frequently under the cloak of darkness, and discovery meant arrest, beatings, and imprisonment, even Siberia. Yet in spite of it, the Bund flourished, conducted demonstrations and strikes, and during pogroms it promoted and led Jewish self-defense. This involved heroism as well as idealism, and it was not only heroism as evinced by the chosen ones, by men who seem to be destined for legend, it was the quiet, unostentatious heroism of simple folk, not infrequently of young folk, in their late 'teens or early twenties, as exemplified to the highest degree by Hirsh Lekert (who was executed in 1902 for his attempt to avenge the lashing of Jewish workers for partipating in a May Day Celebration). Thousands of Hirsh Lekerts spent years in imprisonment and in Siberia. It was in 1897 that the first Zionist Congress was held in Basel, Switzerland, and like the Bund it too evoked a spirit of dedication and devotion in the hearts and minds of those who were stirred by its program and by the dream of a Jewish homeland. interest of the people of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany." What is one to say about such barbarism? In another day and another climate one could cry out to the conscience of the world. At this hour in history it is rather difficult to locate the conscience of the world. In fairness it should be recorded that the United States is holding up a projected $3 million loan to Uganda. This is a moral plus for America, provided she remains firm in her stand. Bondage in the Soviet Unoin IT was Karl Marx who castigated early capitalism for regarding human labor as a commodity to be sold on the market like any other. The traducers of his teachings in the Soviet Union have reduced man as such to the status of a commodity, a pawn of the state, and have applied it now in the most reprehensible manner to Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel or elsewhere. The pretext for it is that citizens of the Soviet Union are beneficiaries of free education from elementary school through college (for those who can be accepted), and hence it is fitting that the state be compensated for this free education. The claim is preposterous and scandalous. Free education is a feature of all advanced communities. Payment for it is indirect, rendered manifest in the general cultural tone and dynamics of society. Students contribute to it even while in school, and certainly after graduation. Jews who wish to emigrate have already served the state abundantly, more than enough to justify their education. As for the Jews remaining in the Soviet Union, there is no doubt that their collective share in the economic and scientific spheres is quite ample and sufficient to tip the scales in favor of the unhindered right of emigration for those who desire it. Moreover, let us recall that during the Stalin era thousands upon thousands of Jews were sent to labor-camps in Siberia and to prisons, and hundreds of Jewish writers and scholars were liquidated at the-
October 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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It was a joy to sing together to celebrate the Jewish New Year and the arrival of fall.
#WorkersCircle #Yiddish #YiddishCulture #Klezmer #YiddishSong
October 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Your voice is your vote! Prepare to use it this fall. Get ready for the midterms by checking your registration, finding election deadlines, learning what’s on your ballot, and getting the nonpartisan voting information you need to make your plan to vote. Go to www.vote411.org/TheWorkersCircle today
October 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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This Día de los Muertos, communities across the country are coming together to honor the lives lost to ICE violence and detention — and to demand Congress finally act. Since 2025, at least 54 people have died in ICE custody. We're done mourning quietly, we're turning grief into action. #EndTheICEAge
October 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Join us Sunday, Oct 18 at 1 PM for an interview exploring Yiddish cultural roots. Avram Mlotek sits down with his uncle Mark (Moish) Mlotek to discuss their family's rich legacy, honoring the pioneering work of Yiddish song collectors Yosl and Chana Mlotek. RSVP here: www.circle.org/events/fun-d...
October 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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With Sukkot ending, this week’s Yiddish Song highlight is another ditty about the holiday.

Explore this song and more at yiddishsongs.org/a-suke-a-kle...
#WorkersCircle #YiddishMusic #YiddishSong
October 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Hear from our Talk to Your Sheriff Campaign National Organizer, JJ Briscoe on the @defiance.org podcast: www.defiance.news/p/hey-trump-... #demanddemocracy #talktoyoursheriff #midterms
Hey Trump, These Sheriffs Won't Let You Touch Our Elections | Mission Wednesday
PLUS: A Texas DA takes an ICE killing to a grand jury
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October 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Join us and @ctr4cmnground.bsky.social to call Black voters across the country with crucial voting information before the midterm elections on November 3. Black voters are less likely to vote in elections because they face administrative hurdles and poll site closures.
#DemandDemocracy #GOTV
September 29, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Check out our new Intermediate Yidishe Kinder Giml Reading Course at the Workers Circle! Learn more and register here: secure.qgiv.com/for/intermed... #yiddish #yiddishlanguage #WorkersCircle
September 28, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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A $150,000 illegal donation tied to Navatek, then a reported $32 million federal contract two months later: ProPublica’s reporting raises a serious question for Susan Collins, who denies wrongdoing. Senate seats belong to voters, not donors buying access.
#TrumpsCorruptCongress
September 25, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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We are human beings and we deserve respect and, above all, the right to be treated humanely." – Rafael Alambarrio, speaking from the Adams County Detention Center in Natchez, MS – one of the nation’s largest immigration facilities. mississippitoday.org/2026/09/21/i...
#ImmigrantRights #HumanRights
September 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Celebrate Yiddish music ✅
#SummerStage #Yiddish #Klezmer #WorkersCircle #NYCthingstodo
September 24, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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To all who identify as bixsexual, we see you today and every day. You are welcome here.
#BisexualVisibilityDay #BiPride #Pride
September 23, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Join us this October on the ground in Charlotte, North Carolina as we get out the vote and fight voter suppression before the midterms. Learn more and express interest here: www.circle.org/events/canva...
#GOTV #GetOutTheVote #VotingRights #WorkersCircle
September 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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It’s fall! Fall might be for cozy sweaters and warm drinks, but it is also the perfect time to demand democracy and learn yiddish. Join our email newsletter at www.circle.org/signup so you don’t miss any of our actions and programs this season.
#Fall #Autumn #WorkersCircle #Yiddish #SocialJustice
September 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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More than 10,000 people including Workers Circle Democracy Circles from North VA are fighting back to stop the demolition of the Kennedy Center. #DemandDemocracy
September 19, 2026 at 12:14 AM