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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

Workmen's Circle

8-year-old Dinah Slepovitch has greeted Yiddishland attendees each morning for the last five years, and continues to do so in August 2021. (Danielle Ziri)
August 28, 2021, 4:17 am
A Yiddish retreat in upstate NY unites ‘mamaloshen’ enthusiasts young and old
The Workers Circle’s Trip to Yiddishland is a week-long celebration of language, culture, art, music and dance, with dedicated attendees aged 8 to 92
By Danielle Ziri
Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, July 10, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)
July 10, 2018, 11:17 pm
How Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh may affect issues that matter to Jews
Progressive groups concerned Trump’s nominee may be threat to reproductive rights while Orthodox group welcome his record on religious liberty
By Josefin Dolsten
Covers of the 72-year-old Jewish Currents magazine. (JTA collage)
April 27, 2018, 2:10 am
72-year-old left-wing magazine Jewish Currents aims for millennials
With communism and atheism looking antiquated to the younger crowd, the secular publication shifts its stance to a ‘non-Zionist’ platform focusing on Diaspora social activism
By Josefin Dolsten
Participants in the New York Women’s March marching with the Workmen’s Circle, Jan 21, 2017. (Courtesy of Workmen’s Circle/JTA)
January 20, 2018, 3:07 am
Jewish groups gear up for Women’s March 2018
The event, which last year took place in cities around the world the day after Trump’s inauguration, is set to kick off Saturday
By Josefin Dolsten
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
December 8, 2016, 2:54 am
6 Jewish groups to skip Conference of Presidents party at Trump’s DC hotel
Some of the liberal organizations cite bigotry they associate with Trump campaign in explaining absence, others point to conflicts of interest posed by his business holdings
By Ron Kampeas
The Klezmatics had the audience on their feet at their May 16, 2016 tribute to Sholem Aleichem with A Besere Velt chorus at Boston's Temple Ohabei Shalom (Derek Kouyoumjian/ Boston Workmen's Circle)
June 2, 2016, 6:01 am
Mass gatherings mark centennial of Shalom Aleichem’s death
In Boston, thousands celebrate the famed Yiddish author who created Tevye the Dairyman, the inspiration for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
By Penny Schwartz
In West Roxbury's Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries, a row of ten memorial chapels echoes Boston's Jewish heyday, when Roxbury and Dorchester had 90,000 Jews. In this Sept. 2014 photo, a chapel interior shows signs of abandonment. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
November 23, 2014, 3:23 pm
What happened to the Jews of Boston’s ‘Jew’ Hill Avenue?
The rise and fall of Beantown’s Jewish boomtown parallels America’s urban immigration story
By Matt Lebovic
President Obama, flanked by Nathan Diament, left, and Dr. Simcha Katz of the Orthodox Union, displays the framed reproduction of President George Washington’s letter to the Jewish community of Newport, R.I., that he was given at the conclusion of his Oval Office meeting with Orthodox Jewish leaders last July. (photo credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza/JTA)
January 19, 2013, 1:25 am
New study shows US Jews firmly liberal on economic issues
Attachment to Israel made little difference to Jewish voters’ recent electoral choices, findings indicate, but economic views explain Jewish support for Democrats
By Haviv Rettig Gur
October 11, 2012, 12:38 am
One in six US Jews expresses faith outside of synagogue
Survey findings reflect active identification among those who describe themselves as ‘cultural’ and ‘spiritual’ Jews
Young Jews from all over the world participating in the Taglit Birthright program at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, Janurary 2012. Taglit-Birthright is a free 10-day educational trip offered to Jews age 18 to 26. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem Flash90)
July 10, 2012, 1:35 am
Younger US Jews are more attached to Israel — but less enamored of its leaders
‘Birthright Bump’ reverses trend of detachment among non-Orthodox Jewish Americans, while skepticism over peace prospects rises
By Stuart Winer
June 1, 2012, 8:34 am
Poll shows strong US Jewish support for labor, higher taxes
58 percent said they agree that the current Israeli government wants peace, while 78 percent agreed the Palestinians want Israel’s destruction
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