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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World New film highlights the poetry, art and personality of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A documentary film about the life and work of Yiddish poet, singer and painter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman will be screened in three countries, starting January 28th. Beyle, the Artist and Her Legacy, which was directed by Christa Whitney and Liz Walber, explores the poet’s work and its impact…
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Yiddish World The 21st century’s first Yiddish TV show is here
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Yiddish has had a hard time getting on television. In Israel, the language was only permitted on the radio but banned from TV except for a few one-time comedy specials. The only regularly scheduled Yiddish TV shows in history briefly appeared in Montreal in the 1970s and…
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Yiddish World WATCH: Honey balls and ginger candy
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. To mark Chaya Palevsky’s recent inclusion in the Forward 50 the Forverts is reposting a classic episode of the cooking show “Timeless Delicacies”, in which she describes her mother’s honey balls and ginger candy. Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz demonstrate how to make these classic Jewish desserts.
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Yiddish World New Volume of Erotic Yiddish Poems
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Many Yiddish books are published these days with rabbinical endorsements but only once in a blue moon is a new Yiddish book released sporting a “mature content” warning on its cover. Just such a book was recently published, Troim Katz Handler’s collected erotic Yiddish poetry “Simkhe 2”…
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