Forverts Staff
By Forverts Staff
-
Yiddish World VIDEO: Rabbi Soloveitchik describes the emotional experience before Yom Kippur
In this introduction to his 1976 pre-Yom Kippur sermon, he describes how much easier it is to transmit knowledge than to inspire religious awe.
-
Yiddish World VIDEO: A humorous Yom Kippur tale about a shtetl cantor (with English subtitles)
The classic story by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem is performed here by actor Shane Baker.
-
Recipes VIDEO: Watch us prepare tzimmes for Rosh Hashanah that’s not overly sweet
Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz make two kinds of tzimmes, one with meat and another that's pareve.
-
Yiddish World The Forverts is going on vacation. Here’s how to access our content during the break.
Below you'll find the links to our articles, Yiddish Word of the Day series and our cooking shows.
-
Yiddish World Linguist Isaac Bleaman receives National Science Foundation award to study language of Holocaust survivors
The $470,000 grant will support research based on Yiddish-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation.
-
Yiddish World VIDEO: ‘Hava Nagila’ and two other Israeli hit songs – in Yiddish
David Eshet’s recording of “Yerushalayim shel zahav” (“Jerusalem, City of Gold”) became the most popular Yiddish song in Israel’s history.
-
Yiddish World April 19: Manhattan commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On Tuesday, April 19 at 1 p.m. there will be an in-person commemorative program dedicated to the Jewish men and women who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The event will take place in Riverside Park, Manhattan. Since 1947, when the City of New York earmarked a site for a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto…
-
Yiddish World Yiddish artists collective is launched in Melbourne
A new Yiddish artists collective in Melbourne has released two videos of mystical Yiddish poetry set to music. The artists collective, called “Di Farborgene Khalyastre” (“The Gang of the Concealed”), took the name from a major Yiddish cultural avant-garde movement in Warsaw in the early 1920s which brought together poets, novelists dedicated to European expressionism,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion The real reason for the US war with Iran may have nothing to do with Israel
- 2
News When observant Jews gathered to challenge Israel orthodoxy, verbal sparring and walkouts ensued
- 3
Culture Could my love of oysters actually be kosher?
- 4
Fast Forward Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack dead after ramming car into temple, police say
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Amid antisemitic attacks, Trump has forced an impossible choice on American synagogues
-
Opinion What we get wrong about how Germany has reckoned with its Nazi past
-
Opinion Temple Israel was my home — and what I learned there can help us get through this difficult moment
-
Looking Forward What I learned at a Holocaust survivors’ Purim party
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
