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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

socialism

John Oliver discusses the 'Look for the Union Label' jingle on the November 14, 2021 episode of 'Last Week Tonight.' (YouTube screenshot)
November 18, 2021, 12:03 pm
John Oliver celebrates ’70s women’s labor jingle with deep Jewish roots
The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ ‘Look for the Union Label’ song was a pioneering message of diversity based in the old Yiddish socialist tradition
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
US President Donald Trump speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 2, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
March 3, 2019, 5:03 am
Trump ridicules ‘socialist’ Democrats, other foes in rhapsody to conservatives
Two-hour speech to CPAC, much of it off the cuff, veers from attacks on Jeff Sessions and Green New Deal to defending comments on Otto Warmbier’s death
By KEVIN FREKING
Illustrative: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America marching at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, September 2011. (CC BY David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons /File)
November 11, 2017, 7:44 am
Once taboo, socialism finds comrades among US millennials
Nation’s fastest growing Marxist-inspired group balloons from around 6,500 to more than 30,000 members following 2016’s presidential race
By Maggy DONALDSON
Shayna Abramson
November 3, 2017, 4:08 pm
Shayna Abramson
My open-heart surgery won’t break the bank
Israel’s socialized healthcare is becoming the most important benefit of American aliyah
Ron Kampeas
May 11, 2017, 11:22 pm
Ron Kampeas
The day the newscast died
Channel 1 simply was Israel: austere, serious, faithful, and with the camaraderie and purpose that meant ‘home’
A student and teacher play the violin during a presentation on child victims of the Holocaust at the Midtown Workmen’s Circle School in Manhattan, April 23, 2017. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 7, 2017, 1:07 pm
This Sunday school teaches kids Yiddish — and socialism
Run by the century-old Jewish non-profit Workmen’s Circle, one Manhattan academy wants students to connect to their Judaism through activism and secular culture
By Ben Sales
Yair Sheleg
January 30, 2017, 3:34 pm
Yair Sheleg
Religious Zionism embraces capitalism
The National-Religious camp has jettisoned social justice in favor of a hard-hearted — and unsustainable — worldview
Yael Neeman grew up as part of an extreme communal 'experiment' on Kibbutz Yehiam. (Courtesy)
November 13, 2016, 6:45 am
In the kibbutz children’s house, we grew up speaking in plural, writes memoirist
Newly released in English, Israeli Yael Neeman’s portrait of her 1960s Socialist childhood is ripe to resonate with US Millennials exploring communal living
By Jen Maidenberg
French President Francois Hollande (L) welcomes Swiss Economic Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann during the inauguration of the Unterlinden Museum following its renovation in Colmar, eastern France, on January 23, 2016. (AFP / POOL / JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS)
January 26, 2016, 4:48 pm
Swiss socialist group apologizes for anti-Semitic caricature
Youth division of the country’s second largest party says it was ‘a mistake’ to publish cartoon with anti-Jewish stereotypes
By JTA
The Madgera (Courtesy)
August 6, 2015, 5:59 pm
Socialist kibbutz meets capitalist tech incubator in the Negev
Entrepreneurs should move in and hatch their businesses on site, the folks at Kibbutz Revivim believe
By David Shamah
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses hecklers and supporters at the Netroots Nation 2015 Presidential Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, July 18, 2015. (Charlie Leight/Getty Images/AFP)
July 21, 2015, 8:36 pm
Righty magazine calls Bernie Sanders a Nazi
National Review writes it’s ‘a queasy and uncomfortable thing’ calling a descendant of Holocaust survivors a national socialist — then does it anyway
By Ron Kampeas
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a town hall meeting in Ames, Iowa earlier this year. (Photo credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP)
April 30, 2015, 8:16 am
Senator Bernie Sanders announces presidential run
Jewish legislator from Vermont plans to run as a Democrat, warns detractors to ‘not underestimate me’
By Dave Gram
American expat Victor Grossman as a young man in East Germany, early 1950s (photo credit: Courtesy)
September 27, 2014, 12:08 pm
Jewish Communist expats in East Germany recall heady 1950s
For Victor Grossman and Michael Hamburger, the annual Victims of Fascism Day is of equal importance to Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Micki Weinberg
Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing a rally on Capitol Hill in 2013. (Courtesy JTA)
January 23, 2014, 4:11 am
For lone socialist in Congress, pet issue takes flight
For independent Jewish Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, ‘economic inequality’ are not just the buzzwords du jour
By Ron Kampeas
Malynnda Littky-Porath
August 8, 2013, 11:46 am
Malynnda Littky-Porath
Slide to the left
Inequities in Israeli society have finally caused this one-time rugged individualist to have a change of heart
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