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“There, where we live, there is our country! A democratic republic! Full political and national rights for Jews. Ensure that the voice of the Jewish working class is heard at the Constituent Assembly.” Yiddish poster, Kiev, ca. 1918. Its message urges Jews to vote for the Bund in an election following the Russian Revolution; non-Bolshevik parties were at that time still tolerated by the regime.

Social Justice

Israel Doesn’t Show Us How to Fight Fascism—but the Diaspora Can

Is it really wrong to have ties to a community based in a shared vision of God, justice, and hope, rather than in land and blood?

Drawing Blood

Social Justice

An American in Istanbul: Molly Crabapple on Art and Activism

Molly Crabapple talks Drawing Blood, a memoir about her globe-trotting youth and her ongoing search for justice.