Circle Lodge Program
Connect with your heritage while having fun. Circle Lodge offers a chance to replenish your mind and revitalize your spirit...
Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring
Building engaged Jewish learning communities with a passion to improve the world through activism.
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Camp Kinder Ring
Camp Kinder Ring is an overnight camp for boys and girls ages 7 to 16 that provides all land... -
Workmen’s Circle Scholarship Fund
If you are interested in learning more about Yiddish language and culture and are age 35 or under (or you know someone who is), the Workmen’s Circle is delighted to extend a very special invitation! -
Resolution on Inclusion of People with Disabilities
The Workmen’s Circle adopted the following Resolution on Inclusion of People with Disabilities: In the words of the Developmental... -
WC/AR Diversity Statement
The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring is an organization that has been committed to inclusion and diversity for over 100 years. Our Boston affiliate...
This Thursday, join Executive Director Ann Toback and
Director of Education Kate O’Brien for a special presentation:
Imagination. Relationships. Action.
Crafting Secular B’nai Mitzvah in Today’s Workmen’s Circle
Thursday, May 23, 7PM
at WC/AR, 247 West 37th Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Admission is free and all are welcome!
What does it mean to create a compelling coming of age ceremony in a secular Workmen’s Circle learning community? How can we use b’nai mitzvah as the start of lifelong Jewish engagement – not just an endpoint to school?
Join us for a first-hand look at the incredible achievements of our Workmen’s Circle teens who have turned their b’nai mitzvah into meaningful celebrations of learning, community, and social justice. These students and their families are the foundation of the Workmen’s Circle vision of a new, intergenerational learning movement that depends on the creativity, participation, and energy of all members. Join us in blazing new paths to realize vision of the Workmen’s Circle in the 21st Century: a shenere un besere velt far ale.
Workmen’s Circle Statement on the Senate’s Failure to Pass the Manchin-Toomey Gun Reform Amendment.
The Workmen’s Circle expresses its shock and outrage at the inexcusable failure of the United States Senate to pass the Manchin-Toomey gun reform amendment.
The senators who voted to block the measure betrayed the American public that elected them, a public that overwhelmingly supports modest reforms to curb the epidemic of gun violence plaguing our nation. They betrayed the 30,000 Americans killed by gun violence each year and the countless thousands more who are wounded or left behind to mourn. They betrayed the children of Columbine, Aurora, Sandy Hook and the tragedies yet to come—tragedies that have been made all that much more certain by the actions of these 46 senators.
Moreover, they betrayed American democracy. That a minority of the Senate can routinely prevent action on the critical issues confronting our nation makes a mockery of the very idea of government of the people, by the people and for the people for which so many have sacrificed so much. America needs a legislature capable of doing its job. We deserve representatives worthy of the name.
We urge the lawmakers who led the way in crafting this legislation to continue working until gun reform is achieved. And we call on the American public not to give up but to join with us in demanding greater gun safety in our streets, our schools and our homes.