Rukhl Schaechter is the editor of the Yiddish Forward (Forverts) and also produces and stars in the YouTube series “Yiddish Word of the Day.”
Rukhl SchaechterYiddish/Forverts Editor
By Rukhl Schaechter
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Forverts in English Yiddish linguist Dovid Braun is appointed YIVO’s Academic Advisor in Yiddish
Braun has instituted more intensive Yiddish language courses in the fall and spring semesters
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Forverts in English 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — how to commemorate it
There will be a ceremony honoring the ghetto fighters in Riverside Park as well as a recording of it provided right afterwards.
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Forverts in English Celebrating the digital launch of an iconic Yiddish song collection
The searchable database of 400 Yiddish songs is based on the songbooks compiled by the late husband-and-wife team, Yosl and Chana Mlotek.
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Forverts in English A remarkable album of soulful Hasidic melodies performed by women
Hasidic men have been singing these tunes, called nigunim, for centuries, especially in the presence of their Rebbe.
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Forverts in English VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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Forverts in English My mother and grandmother never made challah. Here’s why I do, and why I love it.
Baking challah meant nothing special until I discovered a recipe named for the European city my father was from.
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Forverts in English Yiddish Chinese restaurant video is shared in China — with Mandarin subtitles
Students at Peking University translated the subtitles and shared the clip on China’s video platform, Bilibili, attracting 3,000 views after one day.
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Forverts in English VIDEO: Funny skit of Jewish diners at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas
In this YidLife episode, comics Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion can't agree on why this Jewish ritual is so popular
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Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
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Opinion Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
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Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
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Fast Forward Police in Rouen, France, shoot and kill man who set fire to a synagogue
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News Queens College has been a model of Muslim-Jewish cooperation. Can it stay that way after Oct. 7?