First Fridays — The Workers Circle
First Fridays
Friday, February 6, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join our monthly 30-minute social justice briefing and community building event. Bring your lunch or your morning cup of coffee to this relaxed conversation where you’ll...
“יידישער אָפּטימיזם!” פֿון דער ליגע פֿאַר ייִדיש
דעצעמבער 2025/כּיסלו תּשפּ״ו
ליבע גוטע־פֿרײַנד,
איך ווער תּמיד באַגײַסטערט און אינספּירירט פֿונעם ייִדיש־אָפּטימיזם. אין 1979 האָט דער טאַטע, מרדכי שעכטער – דער דעמאָלטיקער אויספֿיר־סעקרעטאַר פֿון דער ייִדיש־ליגע – געשריבן אין אַ בריוו דער עקזעקוטיווע, ווען מ׳האָט געהאַלטן...
“Yiddish Optimism” by the League for Yiddish
December 2025 / Kislev 5786
Dear good friends,
I am always energized and inspired by Yiddish optimism. In 1979, my father, Mordkhe Schaechter—then executive secretary of the League for Yiddish—wrote in a letter to the executive...
Tom Stoppard, award-winning British playwright, dies at 88
Tom Stoppard, the prolific British playwright whose late-in-life discovery of his Jewish roots inspired his 2020 play “Leopoldstadt,” died at his home in Dorset, England, on Nov. 29. He was 88.
His many works include...
Former US vice president Dick Cheney, ‘among finest public servants of his generation,’ dies...
Dick Cheney, who served as vice president from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and as defense secretary from 1989 to 1993 under the latter’s father, former President...
Chabad House in Jamaica sees major damage from Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has dealt significant damage to the Chabad House in Montego Bay, Jamaica, though Rabbi Yaakov and Mushkee Raskin, who created the Chabad of Jamaica in 2014, and their children are reportedly safe and sheltered...
Chess world stunned by death of Jewish prodigy Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Naroditsky, a grandmaster who rose from child prodigy status to become among America’s most significant figures in competitive chess, died Monday at 29, the Associated Press reported.
The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky...
Aron Bielski: The Last of the Holocaust Hero Brothers
Aron Bielski passed away just before Rosh Hashanah. With his death, the last of the heroic Bielski brothers — who led the partisans, rescued Jews, and fought the Nazis — is gone. He was...
Rabbi Berel Wein: Recalling his Zionist opposition to the two-state nightmare
“The more I read and study Jewish history, the clearer it becomes that there is an Author and Planner, Who guides Israel to its destiny.”
— Rabbi Berel Wein (October 1990)
Rabbi Berel Wein, a Chicago-born pulpit...
Former Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer dies at 81
Renowned economist and former Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer has died at age 81, according to Hebrew media reports. Fischer's career spanned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the International Monetary Fund and the...