Rukhl Schaechter and Zach Golden are the staff of the Forverts, the Yiddish Forward.
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Forverts in English Forverts video series, Yiddish Word of the Day, has 12-year old fan
Read this article in Yiddish Ziv Pauli Harlow Siegel (Ziv Peleh, in Hebrew), a 12-year old sixth-grader at the Ramaz School, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Manhattan, has been an avid viewer of the new Forverts video series, “Yiddish Word Of the Day”, even using some of the words and phrases in his own…
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Forverts in English Listen to the first chapter of Harry Potter in Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish The first chapter of Harry Potter in Yiddish can now be heard online, read by translator Arun Viswanath. Although Viswanath reads the narration in his native Ukrainian Yiddish, he acts out certain characters’ dialogue in their respective dialects. Hagrid’s thick West Country accent of the original is transformed in the…
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Forverts in English Mikhl Baran, American Yiddish cultural icon, who fought Nazis at the age of 17, has passed away
Read this article in Yiddish. The longtime teacher, camp director, Yiddish radio host and cultural activist Mikhl Baran died on Friday, April 17th, at his home in Queens. He was 97 years old. Baran was born in Oszmiana (Oshmene, in Yiddish), Poland in 1922. In a 2018 profile he recalled the tensions in the town…
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Forverts in English WATCH: Third Seder performed by Klezmer stars – now on Youtube
Read this article in Yiddish. An international cadre of musicians, singers and dancers took part in a Third Seder conducted over Zoom. More than 1,100 people watched the program, which was organized live over Facebook by Rabbi Avram Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld of Golden Land Concerts and Connections. Hundreds of others have since viewed it…
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Forverts in English Kiryas Yoel Hatzoloh: Shut all synagogues, yeshivas, schools and mikvahs!
Read this article in Yiddish Hatzolah of Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York Hasidic town of Palm Tree’s volunteer ambulance corps, released a poster in Yiddish Tuesday warning residents to close all communal institutions including synagogues. As a public service during this pandemic, the Forward is providing free, unlimited access to all coronavirus articles. If…
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Forverts in English All YIVO online classes are now free of charge
Read this article in Yiddish As COVID-19 continues to affect individuals and societies around the world, the YIVO Institute for Jewish research has decided to offer all its online courses free of charge. “YIVO wants to help keep our spirits lifted and provide content to sustain our minds and souls,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO’s Executive…
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Forverts in English WATCH: Kids make homentashen in Yiddish
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter teaches a monthly cooking class in Yiddish for children whose parents or grandparents are raising them in the language. Last week, the group made homentashen together and learned the different Yiddish terms for traditional fillings. Among them you’ll hear traditional words like aprikosn (apricot), and povidle (prune jam). The music is…
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Forverts in English Book launch party for new volume of erotic Yiddish poetry
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Fans of Yiddish and erotic poetry will gather at CYCO to hear selected poems from Troim Katz Handler’s new collection, entitled “Simkhe”. The book launch party, which will take place on Monday, January 27th, will include readings and discussions in Yiddish and English. The program is being…
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