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 EU Surprisingly Comes To Israel’s Aid With Anti-BDS Move
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Among the many holidays in the Jewish calendar, May could easily be called Israel Month. It begins with Memorial Day, which commemorates the fallen soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces, and is followed immediately by Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Several weeks later comes Jerusalem Day, celebrating…
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Forverts in English Want To Know Where Yiddish Is Going? Ask Directions In Israel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. During a recent trip to Israel, my 31-year old son, Naftali, spent an afternoon taking in the sights of Tel Aviv. Although he’s a fluent Hebrew speaker, he was curious whether any of the merchants or passers-by knew Yiddish, too, and decided to check it out. Entering…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Lipa Schmeltzer, AKA The Hasidic Lady Gaga, Shakes Up Purim
The stereotype-defying Orthodox singer and composer, also known as the Hasidic Lady Gaga, talks to the Yiddish Forward at his latest concert in Manhattan.
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Fast Forward WATCH: Meet This Gunslinging, Yiddish-Speaking Klezmer Scholar
Watch this Yiddish-speaking performer and scholar of klezmer music discuss his love of competition shooting, his experience at gun shows in an Ohio military camp and his personal gun collection.
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Opinion The Battle Over What To Call Your Grandma
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. On January 15, 2017, I — the mother of three adult sons — finally became a grandmother. Following the Jewish tradition, the new parents, Menachem and Emily, chose not to divulge the name of the infant boy until the bris. So when the rabbi announced that my…
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Culture Here Are the Top 10 New Yiddish Words
The Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul Glasser, is full not only of familiar words but a smattering of new ones as well. We picked our top ten favorite Yiddish neologisms. Designated Driver = der nikhterer shofer Hate Crime = der sine-farbrekhn Printer = der opdruker Flip-Flops = fingershikh Jabbing Pain =…
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Culture Here’s the Only English-Yiddish Dictionary You Need
Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary Edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Paul Glasser Dr. Chava Lapin, associate editor Indiana University Press and the League for Yiddish, 856 pages, $60 It isn’t easy being a language without a country. Unlike English, Hebrew and hundreds of other languages that have governments to protect them and nurture their growth, Yiddish has,…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Hasidic Hitmaker Covers Justin Bieber Smash — in Yiddish
Last November, Israeli Hasidic singer Chaim Shlomo Mayesz’s Yiddish music video of his newly released album Bas Kol went viral, garnering more than 400,000 hits. The video, which was shot at his brother’s Hasidic wedding in Borough Park, featured Mayesz rapping to the tune of Fifth Harmony’s hip hop track “Worth It”. The song and…
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