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My spider plant appears to have gained an interloper.

I wonder what it is.

Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War / The Battle of Cable Street

I went to an interesting seuda shlishis yesterday; the ever-erudite Dr Colin Schindler spoke on the Jews who volunteered for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. ( Read more... )

One of those at the shiur was an old man who ( Read more... )

The speaker (the old man, not Dr Schindler) himself did not get a subsequent chance to go to Spain, he said, as he was too busy planning the Battle of Cable Street ( Read more... )

He said many Jews were Communists in the 1930s, but got disillusioned with communism after ( Read more... )