Rukhl Schaechter is the Yiddish editor of the Forward and the producer of the YouTube series, “Yiddish Word of the Day.” She loves cooking, Israeli folk-dancing and talking to her grandchildren.
Rukhl SchaechterYiddish/Forverts Editor
By Rukhl Schaechter
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Yiddish World Psychologist, writer and Yiddish culture activist Michael Fox has died
In addition to a memoir, Fox authored two plays, a children's book and three novels.
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Yiddish World ‘Bad Yiddish’ is theme of the 2025 virtual Yiddish conference, Farbindungen
In line with the topic is a lecture on Yiddish literature about Warsaw’s prewar Yiddish-speaking criminals.
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Yiddish World Tel Aviv arts center to host event on Yiddish women’s poetry
The inspiration for the event at Neve Schechter was a poem by poet Celia Dropkin about New York's urban experience
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Yiddish World Satmar-raised singer Riki Rose becomes a Yiddish rock star
The social media influencer has appeared in comedies, cooking shows and concerts, gaining a loyal following on Instagram.
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Yiddish World A Yiddish parody of the Hebrew prayer for rain
The folk song is performed here by the late cantor Mordechai Hershman
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Yiddish World Workers Circle now offers Yiddish courses that meet twice a week
The program includes intensive courses that require learning the Yiddish alphabet, and conversational classes that don't
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Oct. 7: One Year Later A painful split in the Yiddishist community since Oct. 7
The opposing perspectives of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian Yiddish fans has triggered anxiety and vehement arguments
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Yiddish World VIDEO: From under her grandfather’s prayer shawl on Tisha B’Av: Discovering Yiddish
Yiddish activist Gella Schweid Fishman was in the synagogue with her grandfather, when a poster on the wall caught her eye.
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