WATCH: Riki Rose makes garlicky potatoes for Passover
Stuck at home due to COVID-19, Riki starts preparing mashed potatoes but ends up with something a bit different – and so tasty!
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WATCH: Third Seder performed by Klezmer stars – now on Youtube
Read this article in Yiddish. An international cadre of musicians, singers and dancers took part in a Third Seder conducted over Zoom. More than 1,100 people watched the program, which was organized live over Facebook by Rabbi Avram Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld of Golden Land Concerts and Connections. Hundreds of others have since viewed it…
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WATCH: How to make Turkish charoset
Most Ashkenazi Jews make charoset with apples, nuts and wine but in Turkey, the recipe is quite different. Here Gitl Schaechter Viswanath demonstrates how Sephardic Jews prepare it with dates and oranges.
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The Third Seder, a popular secular tradition, will be online this year
Read this article in Yiddish Most traditional Jews outside of Israel conduct two seders every Passover. But when I was growing up, I attended three. My children did, too. The third seder, a popular tradition among several American Jewish organizations beginning in the 1920s, has been providing a Yiddish cultural alternative to the biblically based…
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Coronavirus-related deaths on the rise among the Jewish poor
Read this article in Yiddish A New York-based burial society has applied for emergency funding as it races to keep up with steep increases in the cost of coronavirus-related personal protective equipment, additional grave openings and new personnel to arrange funerals. The 132-year-old Hebrew Free Burial Association, which arranges burials for indigent Jews, expects to…
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How we secretly baked matzah in the Soviet Union
Read this article in Yiddish The only bakery in our shtetl stood at the corner of two central streets, just across from our courtyard. In those rare nights when they actually baked bread, its sour aroma would suffuse the surrounding streets – a signal that it was time to get out of bed and rush…
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Kiryas Yoel Hatzoloh: Shut all synagogues, yeshivas, schools and mikvahs!
Read this article in Yiddish Hatzolah of Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York Hasidic town of Palm Tree’s volunteer ambulance corps, released a poster in Yiddish Tuesday warning residents to close all communal institutions including synagogues. As a public service during this pandemic, the Forward is providing free, unlimited access to all coronavirus articles. If…
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All YIVO online classes are now free of charge
Read this article in Yiddish As COVID-19 continues to affect individuals and societies around the world, the YIVO Institute for Jewish research has decided to offer all its online courses free of charge. “YIVO wants to help keep our spirits lifted and provide content to sustain our minds and souls,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO’s Executive…
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In 1918, a Jewish humorist defied the health department and sneezed — or did he?
Read this article in Yiddish Editor’s Note: The more things change, the more they stay the same. This piece appeared in the Forverts, in Yiddish of course, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Today, as the coronavirus spreads, health authorities are telling us not to touch our face, which is very difficult. Back then, they…
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WATCH: Abraham Sutzkever’s paean to nature sung in Yiddish and English
Read this article in Yiddish. Adah Hetko has earned a reputation in the world of Yiddish and klezmer music for her fresh approach to Yiddish songs, combining influences from popular American folk singers of the 1960s with her own English translations to create a musical experience that bridges Eastern Europe and American folk music. In…
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WATCH: Kids make homentashen in Yiddish
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter teaches a monthly cooking class in Yiddish for children whose parents or grandparents are raising them in the language. Last week, the group made homentashen together and learned the different Yiddish terms for traditional fillings. Among them you’ll hear traditional words like aprikosn (apricot), and povidle (prune jam). The music is…
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