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United Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order is carrying the work and legacy from the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order which was started in 1930 by Jewish-Americans on secular lines. To work on secular lines means that we are inclusive to all people regardless of faith or religion. It also means we can experience the Jewish culture, traditions and holidays while we organize to build worker power.
Passover is a time to speak about liberation struggles and freedom against tyranny. Throughout the world the Jewish people and all partisans of democracy commemorate the Uprising with a solemn renewal of abiding faith and hope in humanity’s everlasting struggle for freedom and dignity. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is like a great flame which for […]
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Published by the Executive Board of the United Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order – https://ujpfo.org/ On this day 80 years ago, 7000 Jews in the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp were finally liberated by the Soviet Red Army. January 27th formally became recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the United Nations. Concentration camps were places where
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By Tyler Rosen. While the Jewish people were preparing for the sacred holiday of Hanukkah, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and owner of one of the biggest social media platforms, X, used his platform to throw his support behind a neo-Nazi party in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD). On Monday, December
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By Tyler Rosen. Hanukkah 2024: The Maccabean Struggle Against ‘King’ Netanyahu Set a year and almost three months after the brutal October 7 attacks on Israeli citizens and the subsequent indiscriminate genocidal incursion against Palestinians by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud government, Hanukkah 2024 is surrounded by darkness. Keeping in theme with Hanukkah being the “Festival of
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Time – December 30th 2024 – 7 PM ESTWhere – ZoomRegister online at https://ujpfo.org/index.php/hanukkah-5785/ Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, represents the heroic stand against the oppressive King Antiochus IV of the Seleucid Empire by the Jewish resistance, the Maccabees. Just as the “Miracle of the Cruse of Oil” provided light in dark times, so too
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By Tyler Rosen. Originally published on by the United Jewish People’s Order – https://ujpfo.org/ Since the genocidal incursion by the Israeli military into the Gaza strip began in response to the Hamas’ kidnapping of Israeli citizens of October 7th, the world has been witness to inhuman atrocities and collective punishment against the civilian residents (including
In the third session of the Jewish Peoples Schule, we discussed the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet Union, the first Jewish state formed in the 20th Century. We looked at the history of the tsarist (czarist) repressions and pogroms against Jews in the Russian Empire and the creation of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast as
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Originally published on the United Jewish People’s Fraternal Order website – https://ujpfo.org/ The resounding victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections this week is a peak moment in the global rise of the new populist right. This current is based on incitement against immigrants and foreigners, pro-corporate economic policies and weakening the mechanisms
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By Jake MO and Tyler NY. On October 5th 2024, the United Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (UJPFO) rang in Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) of year 5785 with the Jewish Peoples Schule class on the Jewish Autonomous Region and Birobidzhan in present-day Far East Russia. Rosh Hashanah is simultaneously a time for rejoice of the
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Reposted from United Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order from October 4, 2024 Today is Rosh Hashanah– it’s a new year. As we reflect on the events on October 7th and its horrific aftermath, we re-dedicate ourselves to struggle for a lasting peace in the Middle East with the immediate creation of a democratic state of Palestine
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