Rukhl SchaechterYiddish/Forverts Editor

WATCH: Forverts Editor Rukhl Schaechter shows her grandson – in Yiddish – how to make latkes

In a delightful short film, a Hasidic bookbinder leads a secret online existence

Read this article in Yiddish. Right from the beginning, “The Binding of Itzik”, a new short film playing in the online Yonkers Film Festival and winner of Best Narrative Short Film at the Berlin Underground Film Festival, treads into uncharted territory. As innocuous piano music plays in the background, the film opens with a computer…

VIDEO: Learn some fun Yiddish phrases about Rosh Hashanah

As Rosh Hashanah approaches, it’s a great opportunity to learn some common Yiddish words and expressions related to the holiday. So this week, two clips of my YouTube series, Yiddish Word of the Day, are devoted to the Jewish new year. The first one covers some of its customs, like sending greeting cards to family…

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

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…

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…