The Forward, the journalism founded by Abe Cahan in a Yiddish speaking era of Socialism and NY worker solidarity is struggling to become the inluence of the Jewish Left; we have a variety of Jewish, Yiddish ventures bravely doing the same and I salute them; but of course who are the people answering the call.

In the short time of Jewish Leftist history in NYC: lets set that at 1897 when Abe Cahan founded the newspaper noting the 1881 assassination of Tsar Alexander III creating the first flood of immigration, there may have been as many as 15 Yiddish newspapers more than half Socialist competing with Abe; so there’s no end to the political differences even antagonisms, intelligences among us that we jokingly say is genetic in character; yes, we are modern, pluralist- without which you can’t have the elements of Democracy.

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