You Could Be Next

Title : You Could Be Next
Release Date : August 26, 2025
Format : Digital Download

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  1. Prologue/Epilogue (Your Choice)
  2. BARUCH
  3. When I ask my friend: What happens if I Tweet: Our President is a terrorist. And she says: You may experience repercussions…people get their hackles all up when you say the word terrorist and you do things with the Jews.
  4. For Bernie Madoff
  5. Body
  6. My Brother’s Spleen
  7. Shifts
  8. You Could Be Next
  9. ATA
  10. Jewish Assimilation
  11. Pickling
  12. Easy Access Pants
  13. On Being a White or White Passing Jew in 2020, Or, (White) Jewish Assimilation in the United States Is Inherently Anti-Black
  14. Them
  15. Jewish Comedy
  16. ADONAI
  17. My G-d Is a Queer G-d
  18. My People
  19. Opaque
  20. Digging
  21. Stoop Kid’s Afraid to Leave Her Stoop
  22. Shifting
  23. ELOHEINU
  24. Questions I ask myself about Zionism, having never been a Zionist myself
  25. Pesach 5784 / When the Group Chat & Instagram Discussions Are About Whether or Not Passover Is an Inherently Zionist Holiday, and/or Whether or Not It’s Possible to Have an Anti-Zionist Seder
  26. Camp
  27. Wherever I Stand
  28. Anti-Zionist?
  29. Are you a good Jew or a bad Jew? Or, dating while Jewish. Or, love in the time of
  30. MELECH
  31. Because This Is America
  32. Fake News! (a found poem)
  33. editorial decision
  34. Isaiah 2:4 (a found poem)
  35. To Esther, With Love
  36. The Beautiful
  37. HA’OLAM
  38. The Pause(s) for Prayer
  39. Shema, Hear, Listen, Pay Attention, or, To the Ones Calling for the Flattening of Gaza at the Pro-Israel Protest Outside the Pfizer Building in Manhattan on October 9, 2023: 
  40. “There are no currently active airports in Palestine.” — Wikipedia
  41. Who holds the holders?
  42. And still, this is a poem about genocide
  43. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Credits: 

  • Lyrics: Caroline Rothstein
  • Performer: Caroline Rothstein
  • Producer: Glenn Grossman
  • Engineer: Glenn Grossman
  • Cover Design: Caroline Rothstein
  • Distribution: Mirror Image

Liner Notes: 

  • Track 10: This original poem by Caroline Rothstein begins and ends with Rothstein singing a verse from Debbie Friedman’s “L’Chi Lach.”
  • Track 31: In this original poem by Caroline Rothstein, Rothstein incorporates singing lyrics from “America the Beautiful,” with lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates.
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