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 VIDEO: High energy and Jewish pride at Central Park’s Yiddish singalong
Many young people in the audience cheered and sang along with the klezmer stars onstage
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Yiddish World Popular Yiddish learning program now offering grants
Yiddish teachers, students and parents praise YiddishPOP for the fun way it presents its lessons.
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Yiddish World Yiddish poetry is coming to Yeshivat Hadar
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen will perform Itsik Manger’s ‘Bible Songs’ at the renowned institution in Manhattan
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Hasidic Jew’s trip to Iran to find Queen Esther’s tomb
Abraham Schwartz had no idea that very soon Iran would be at war with Israel and a trip like this would be impossible
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Yiddish World A concert in memory of theater pioneer Joseph Papp
Later in life, the founder of the Public Theater and Shakespeare in the Park reconnected with his Yiddish heritage.
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Yiddish World An important Yiddish learning tool has been added to the Forward website
The goal is to help readers correctly pronounce Yiddish words that are derived from Hebrew and Aramaic
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Yiddish World This synagogue ‘gets’ why you need Yiddish on Yom Hashoah
Of the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, 85% were Yiddish speakers.
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters
Speakers at the event described in gripping detail the heroic acts by women, including young girls, in the resistance
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