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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Yiddish World WATCH: Forverts Editor Rukhl Schaechter shows her grandson – in Yiddish – how to make latkes
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Culture As popularity of Yiddish skyrockets, Knesset launches Yiddish initiative in Israel
Read this article in Yiddish This week, a lobby was launched in the Knesset, urging the government to take responsibility for preserving Yiddish as a national language, and ultimately, for Israel to become the world center for Yiddish activity. A Knesset lobby is a group of Knesset members who want to enlist support for individuals…
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Yiddish World 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…
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Yiddish World 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…
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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World 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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