Fresh Spekter! We're honored to publish a lightly edited reprint of the introduction to Yasha Levine “The Soviet Jew” series from his blog, Weaponized Immigrant. derspekter.org/the-soviet-jew

weaponized immigrants throw off your chains!

“Does it matter, for instance, that America’s most desperate crisis and most radical revolution began with a mass movement on the political left? Perhaps it should.” —Matthew Karp (Matt Karp 🌹🦏🇺🇸) harpers.org/archive/2024/1…

Der Spekter invites submissions from writers who can speak to two of the three platforms of the International Jewish Labor Bund in their pieces: doikayt, Yiddishkeit (Jewishness), and khavershaaft (solidarity/socialism).

We spoke of Weaponized Immigrants last week and here is a perfect example of its presence in Chinese-American communities thenation.com/article/politi…

took my first stab at longform in way too many years thanks to the mensches at Der Spekter (דער ספּעקטער). grateful for the opportunity to shake the rust off and write it! no I did not choose the image of two buddies showing us the power of male friendship derspekter.org/doikayt-in-the…