Watch: Learn to make bagels the old-fashioned way
By boiling the dough rings before baking them, these homemade bagels come out crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Yiddish Word of the Day: The holiday of Sukkot
How does love compare to a sukkah? Learn this and other fun phrases and proverbs about the holiday.
VIDEO: How to Make Cabbage Strudel for Sukkot
As Rukhl and Eve make this Old World favorite, watch the dough become so thin you can see through it!
VIDEO: Discussion about the Borscht Belt and the rise of American Jewish comedy
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter discusses this colorful chapter of Jewish history with Eddy Portnoy, Phil Brown and Aaron Bendich.
VIDEO: A Yom Kippur Tale by Sholem Aleichem (with English subtitles)
Actor Shane Baker tells the story of Meylekh the Cantor, who dies right after Yom Kippur, and how the townspeople perceive this.
Yiddish Jokes with Ruth Kohn: “The Eulogy” (with English subtitles)
The anecdote, told at a talent show at the Yiddish Vokh in Copake, NY, reflects the irony characteristic of East European Jewish humor.
After 67 years, ‘The Black Cantor’ finally gets a gravestone
The in-person unveiling for the African-American cantor, Thomas LaRue Jones, will take place in Linden, NJ.
‘Yiddish Word of the Day’ Facebook group is launched
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, who hosts the series, hopes members will view the clips and leave comments about the words and expressions used.
Classic story about child of divorce now available in bilingual edition
After his parents split, young Yitskhok moves to the big city to live with his father.
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene celebrates director Zalmen Mlotek
Mlotek is turning 70, and the Folksbiene – 106!