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 The true story behind the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets’
Yiddish actors will perform a documentary in a Manhattan theater, commemorating Stalin's execution of 13 innocent Jewish intellectuals
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Forverts in English The church preacher who gave sermons in Yiddish
Joseph Rabinowitz, a 19th century Hasid who found Jesus, hoped that his Christian-Jewish sect would improve the fate of the Jews
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Forverts in English A Jewish resort in the country for Yiddish speakers of all ages
Each summer, the Yidish Vokh hosts a week filled with workshops, campfires, arts & crafts and sports.
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Forverts in English Go behind the scenes with the Forward’s legendary advice column Bintel Brief
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan is hosting 'Bintel: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow' as part of an all-day festival
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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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