For the Times of Israel, BWC Member Mike Felsen recently wrote an article with recommendations for the Massachusetts Commission on Antisemitism. “In Massachusetts, where I live,…
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Report Back on Health for Palestine with Nidal Al-Azraaq
On Sunday, April 27, 2025, sixty-five of us gathered for a hybrid event: Health for Palestine with Nidal Al-Azraaq, director of 1for3.org and Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, co-founder of Doctors…
Visibility Under Authoritarianism | TDOV 2025
Every year, March 31 marks Transgender Day of Visibility, a day which seeks to commemorate the contributions and struggles of transgender people. In our current political…
BWC Statement on Tufts Student Abduction
On the night of March 25th, 2025, a Fulbright scholar and Tufts graduate student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was abducted by ICE. While the full details of this…
Speech at Harvard Rally by BWC Executive Director, Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein
Hello, my name is Rabbi Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein. I am the Executive Director of the Boston Workers Circle—-a 950-member, 125-year-old progressive Jewish community here in Boston….
Boston Workers Circle Statement in Solidarity with Immigrants
Boston Workers Circle, a 125 year old Massachusetts Jewish organization, was founded by and for immigrants for the purpose of supporting each other. Throughout our history,…
Immigrant Justice Committee (IJC) End-of-Year Update
Neila and Vlad, he Haitian couple that the Immigrant Justice Committee (IJC) has been supporting since January 1, 2024, have accomplished so much in just one…
Support BWC, a Progressive Jewish Home
After many years of struggling to find a Jewish home, I had all but resigned myself to practicing Judaism alone. I spent so long feeling like…
Sacha Lamb BWC Book Talk Summary by Ari Skidmore-Hess
On Sunday, December 8th, award-winning author and BWC member Sacha Lamb came to Shule to give a talk about their two books to students and BWC/Book…