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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Yiddish World YiddishPOP can bring more diversity to American Jewish education
The animated learning tool provides a contemporary approach to Yiddish instead of sending it to the dustbin of history.
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Sutzkever was a leader of the “Paper Brigade” that rescued Jewish cultural treasures from the Nazis
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Among children aged 5 and under, Yiddish now ranks as the third most common home language in New York state
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In his films, the late director strove to find common ground between Jews and non-Jews, especially Catholic Poles.
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