Anita Gallers

Sep 20, 2024 | derspekter.org | Kaia Berman Peters |Jewish Voice |Anita Gallers |Anna Jo

“So my parents met in a hippie cult in the 70s. I’m only half Jewish. I’m not sure I should be here.” I say it with such dryness that you might be tricked into thinking I’m completely normal. The rabbi corrects me and says that I am completely Jewish, and I need to come to celebrate Shabbat more often. Quietly sipping bitter Israeli wine from a single-use plastic cup, I feel a deep sense of regret for having left the house. Then from across the room, I hear a loud, very Jewish-American voice.

Sep 5, 2024 | derspekter.org | Anna Jo |Jewish Voice |Anita Gallers |Kaia Berman Peters

Chaia (she/her) is a dance music artist who combines house and techno grooves with klezmer and Yiddish music. Chaia’s live performances feature vocals and instrumentals, layered over archival samples and modern club beats. Abraham “Abe” Plaut (he/they) is a musician and activist currently based in Washington, D.C., where they are a member of the DMV Bund.

Jul 26, 2024 | derspekter.org | Anita Gallers

MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here is a declaration of survival a demand to exist out loud in color but also and also to be here not somewhere else MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here means not having to leave not being confined in a ghetto of your creation or of ours not being confined to one land not needing a haven being free wherever we are MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here means seeing the aleph formed by cracks in the asphalt means going back to the beginning right here where we already are and seeing ourselves...