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Yiddish World All Episodes of Our Yiddish Cooking Shows
Many of the Forverts’ Yiddish cooking shows starring Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz, “Eat in Good Health,” can be found on the Forward’s website by clicking here. The rest of the episodes are available on Youtube by clicking here. Another Forverts’ cooking show series, “Timeless Delicacies,” can be viewed on Youtube here.
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Culture Here Are The Winners Of Israel’s National Yiddish Story Contest
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In July, Israel’s National Authority for Yiddish Culture launched the first government-sponsored Yiddish-language writing contest ever held in the Jewish state. This week, the authority announced the three winners. Ethel Niborski, age 17, won first prize for her short story “Letters to a Blind Grandfather,” for which…
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The Schmooze WATCH: The Curious History of Rosh Hashanah Cards
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This new video, a collaboration between the Israeli Youtube channel Unpacked and the Forverts, highlights some unknown facts about the venerable tradition of sending Rosh Hashanah greeting cards. Few people know, for instance, that the first Rosh Hashanah cards appeared in Germany in the 1400s or that…
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Culture WATCH: The Timeless Yiddish Love Song, ‘It’s Dark Outside’
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Adah Hetko is a Yiddish singer who adapts classic songs from the collections of ethnomusicologists such as Ruth Rubin and gives them a modern feel. In this recording, produced by the Forverts, she performs her take on the folk song “In Droysn Iz Fintster” (“It’s Dark Outside”)…
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Culture How The Forverts Covered The Peekskill Riots In 1949
Editor’s Note: During the Peekskill riots, in late August, 1949, a violent KKK and fascist mob attacked attendees of a planned concert by Paul Robeson in Westchester County, New York. The violence spread outward, and a number of black and Jewish residents of New York City and Westchester were injured. The following is a translation…
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Yiddish World Orthodox Yiddish Music Video Reaches Out To Mentally Ill
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. On May 13th, a tragedy occurred in Boro Park that shook the local Jewish community and sent shockwaves around the Orthodox Jewish world: A 23-year-old Hasidic man set himself on fire in his car. After the tragedy the directors of 1225, a drop-in center for Hasidic youth…
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Yiddish WATCH: How to make dairy and vegan cheesecakes for Shavuot
The vegan version is made with chocolate and a surprise ingredient, that requires special tools to open!
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Yiddish World The Forverts Launches A Crossword!
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Thanks to a generous donation to the Forverts by an anonymous donor, the Forverts has launched a biweekly Yiddish crossword puzzle. The puzzles include clues about Yiddish words and literature, Jewish traditions and pop culture. The first puzzle can be seen here. The donor, a Jewish philanthropist,…
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