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 VIDEO: How To Make A Czernowitzer Challah
Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz demonstrate how to braid your challah several different ways.
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Yiddish World Behind The Scenes On ‘Shtisel,’ Netflix’s Surprise Ultra-Orthodox Hit
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. On a recent Tuesday evening, more than 2,200 fans of the Israeli television show “Shtisel” streamed into Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-el to watch a lively stage discussion with three of the series’s leading actors and its producer. The Israeli drama about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem, which…
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Yiddish World In Israel, Yiddish Is Surprisingly Trendy
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Last month, I embarked on a dream of mine: a 10-day Hebrew immersion in Israel with the aim to finally become fluent in the language. For years, I’ve been studying Hebrew, both through classes and on my own. Every Shabbat afternoon I get together with my friends…
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Yiddish World She Survived The Holocaust. This Week, She’ll Turn 100.
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This week, Henia Ragol, a Holocaust survivor and loyal reader of the Yiddish Forverts, will celebrate her hundredth birthday. (As we say in Yiddish: May she live 120 years!) During an interview with the Forverts, Ragol (née Kotton), a resident of a moshav in northern Israel who’s…
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Culture As The Forverts Print Edition Comes To An End, A Passover Thought
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As many of you know, the April 2019 edition of the Forverts was the very last to come out in print. From now on, all our resources will be devoted to improving and growing our website. Although we’re very optimistic about the future of the Forverts online…
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Food WATCH: How To Prepare A Delicious Passover Breakfast
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts.
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Food What On Earth Is An ‘Amalek Kugel’?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Shul was packed last Shabbos – not because of a bar mitzvah or aufruf, but because on the last Shabbos before Purim, Shabbat Zachor, we read the short passage that commands us to ‘erase’ our bitter enemy – the people of Amalek whose most famous descendant was…
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Culture In Finland, A Yiddish Resurgence
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Part of my work as Forverts editor is to speak at Jewish conferences, community centers and synagogues about the Forverts and Yiddish culture, which is what brought me to the Finnish capital of Helsinki in early February. I had been invited to this year’s Limud Conference Helsinki…
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