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 Goldfaden’s “The Sorceress” — A Yiddish Cinderella Story Of Our Own
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This week, a newly restored production of the classic Yiddish operetta, “Di Kishefmakherin” (“The Sorceress”), premiered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. The show, produced by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, will run till December 29 and is accompanied by English and Russian supertitles….
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Yiddish World Good News For the Forverts!
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As many of you know, this has been a challenging year for us here at the Forverts – most notably, because we had to end our printed edition which had been the cornerstone of our newspaper since its founding in 1897, and transform ourselves into a purely…
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Yiddish World The Summer Of Love Was a Bit Scary, Too
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This summer marks 50 years since the iconic Woodstock Music Festival, a joyous, muddy event that took place on a farm in the Catskill Mountains. The festival, which attracted more than 400,000 people over three days in August 1969, aimed to spread a message of love and…
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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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