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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Forverts in English WATCH: A Rosh Hashanah treat – ginger candy and honey balls
Jews make teiglach, small knots of dough boiled in honey, to wish each other a sweet new year
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Forverts in English As the corona crisis continues, our kids could use some Tchaikovsky
Read this article in Yiddish As I arrived in Washington Heights to pick up my 3-year old grandson for my weekly babysitting gig, I decided that this was going to be a different kind of ride. After buckling him in and settling myself behind the wheel, I told him that instead of letting him watch…
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Life It’s 2020 and we’re wandering in the desert once again
Read this article in Yiddish. One of the hardest things for me to get used to during this pandemic has been not being able to go to shul on shabbos or to have friends and fellow synagogue members over for a homemade meal afterwards. Not only has this deprived me of trying out new recipes…
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Forverts in English I miss my family. But this game made me laugh again.
Read this article in Yiddish. Like many people whose lives are tightly intertwined with other family members, the COVID-19 social distancing restrictions have left me feeling like the rug was pulled out from under me – especially since my husband, Leon, and I had been living what many grandparents only dream about: three generations under…
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Forverts in English The Third Seder, a popular secular tradition, will be online this year
Read this article in Yiddish Most traditional Jews outside of Israel conduct two seders every Passover. But when I was growing up, I attended three. My children did, too. The third seder, a popular tradition among several American Jewish organizations beginning in the 1920s, has been providing a Yiddish cultural alternative to the biblically based…
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News Israeli health ministry releases Yiddish audio recording to prevent spread of COVID-19
The Israeli health ministry is taking unusual steps to reach out to the country’s growing Hasidic population to help stop the spread of COVID-19, releasing an audio recording and setting up a hotline – both in Yiddish. The audio recording, which was first reported Sunday by the Israeli daily Hamodia, gives specific instructions regarding social…
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Forverts in English WATCH: How to prepare Romanian eggplant spread
Romanian eggplant spread, also called “poor man’s caviar” is a great side dish to go with challah on Shabbos. In this episode of our Yiddish cooking show, featuring a brand new intro, Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz demonstrate how it’s made.
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Forverts in English Despite his ALS – he manages to study Talmud daily
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Here in New York, we‘ve seen a steady stream of coverage about the Siyum Hashas celebration held at Metlife stadium this past week — marking the completion of the seven-year cycle of daf yomi, daily Talmud study. In Jerusalem, the event was marked with a special celebration…
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