דער פֿאָרװערטס

Hear two Yiddish children’s songs that matches the mood on this very snowy day: “Der vinter iz gekumen” (“Winter is here”) and “Der feter shneyer” (“Old Man Winter”) — literally “Uncle Snow”! The children in the chorus are students from Workers Circle Yiddish schools, singing songs arranged and directed by Zalmen Mlotek. From the 1974 album “Gut Yom-tev, Kinder.”

In this episode of Yiddish With Rukhl, you’ll hear an in-depth article by Jake Schneider called “What activists for at-risk languages can learn from each other.” /podcasts/yiddish-with-rukhl-a-forverts-podcast/

In this episode of Yiddish With Rukhl, you’ll hear an in-depth article by Rukhl Schaechter on the topic of Jewish education. The article is called “What’s missing in our Jewish high schools.” /podcasts/yiddish-with-rukhl-a-forverts-podcast/

The theme of this week’s episode of "Yiddish with Rukhl" is folk tales. Rukhl reads two articles written by the Yiddish folklore scholar Itzik Gottesman. One is about the popular Yiddish story of a bubbe, her grandchildren and a hungry bear, and the other an essay on old Hasidic stories with a new twist. Also, we're happy to announce that we've expanded the podcast series from five episodes to 12, so stay tuned for a lot more from Rukhl! /podcasts/yiddish-with-rukhl-a-forverts-podcast/

This weekend, the New York Times profiled our political reporter Jacob Kornbluh. “Mr. Kornbluh is the senior political reporter for The Forward, the 129-year-old Jewish publication based a short walk from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new office,” they write. “He is the only Hasidic journalist who trails the mayor daily, his yarmulke and curled sidelocks unmissable in the crowd.” “Here is a London-born former professional lox-slinger who describes himself as the proud holder of a degree in nothing, keeps two mugs at his desk with his own face on them and follows what colleagues call a Shabbat-compliant 24/6 work schedule,” the Times continues. “And he can feel like more of an outlier in his own community, as an insistent mainstay in the secular world, than he does at City Hall. ‘It’s sort of a very interesting time for me,’ Mr. Kornbluh said. ‘Not off topic.’” 🔗 You can find a gift link in the Forward's Linkstream: https://linkstre.am/jdforward 📸 Samuel Breslow/The Forward

In our third Yiddish With Rukhl podcast, we discuss Yiddish articles about the Jewish cemetery. The first article, by Annabel Gottfried Cohen, describes a fascinating traditional cemetery ritual led by women, in which graves are measured with thread which is then used to make special “soul candles” for Yom Kippur. The second article, by Yiddish linguist Paul Glasser, explains the many different, and often intriguing ways of saying “cemetery” in Yiddish. /podcasts/yiddish-with-rukhl-a-forverts-podcast/

In this episode of Yiddish with Rukhl — A Forverts Podcast, you'll hear two Yiddish articles about seeking love. The first one is an article called “What Jewish immigrants in America discovered about love.” The second is an essay, “A successful matchmaker introduces me to a psychiatrist.” /episodes/seeking-love-ATwT2ZVI

Beginning in the 1920s and ‘30s, Yiddish radio connected Jews worldwide. In New York City, the Jewish Daily Forverts’ station WEVD — known as “the station that speaks your language” — hosted a wide variety of immensely popular Yiddish programs with news and cultural highlights. Today, we have fewer opportunities to hear spoken Yiddish, but it’s an essential need for people who want to learn or polish their Yiddish language skills. That was the impetus for Rukhl Schaechter’s new podcast, Yiddish with Rukhl, a podcast for people who love spoken Yiddish, brought to you by the Forverts. In a 15-20 minute podcast, Rukhl shares engaging Forverts articles written in conversational Yiddish. Each episode focuses on a single topic. Before and after the Yiddish reading, she explains how listeners can benefit from the experience of hearing Yiddish, even if their knowledge of the language is at the intermediate level. The limited series Yiddish with Rukhl will drop new episodes Sunday mornings for five weeks. /podcasts/yiddish-with-rukhl-a-forverts-podcast/

While the Forverts is on vacation, you can check out the links to our English and Yiddish articles, Yiddish Wordle, Yiddish lessons and cooking shows. /yiddish-world/760177/the-forverts-is-on-vacation-heres-how-to-access-our-content-while-were-away/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL-M6VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiRZyz24uiX1GC02LotNoWLAHoFIfKt8eOFr2sU3k9K81fj5v4_ifn_VczIV_aem_zJNFLrarJH6097edN8eBPQ

Ukraine in the words of a murdered Yiddish poet "Ukraine," A Yiddish poem by Dovid Hofstein, who was murdered by the Soviet regime in August 1952, is now available in English. Its translator, Maia Evrona, points out that pre-Holocaust Yiddish literature written by Ukrainian Jews holds relevance for the current Ukrainian fight against Russia. /yiddish-world/759676/ukraine-murdered-yiddish-poet-dovid-hofstein-stalin/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL4oCFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkTB6nsInNTTi0XZimAaxY2wDpyIS-1Ykgl2-0tBu6TW7Iu2pKDANCtmE-QT_aem_2newdxupyxQvQUamz3lsrQ

These works by Issachar Ber Ryback commemorate, and transform, a devastated world דערוויסט זיך וועגן צוויי וויכטיקע קונסטווערק פֿון ישׂשׂכר בער ריבאַק, וואָס דריקן אויס זײַן צער נאָך די מוראדיקע פּאָגראָמען פֿון דער רוסישער בירגערקריג צווישן 1918 און 1920. Learn about two important works of art by Issachar Ber Ryback that expressed his grief about the horrific pogroms that broke out during the Russian civil war between 1918 and 1920. /yiddish/759493/these-works-by-issachar-ber-ryback-commemorate-and-transform-a-devastated-world/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL4bEZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHo3ZbUIzCOsNg1Xf2X3DFGZPfH9aCYYX9Xjr8K394E6lI-Qq-lhB0RLqAr8h_aem_TKAHZKBBdrwWmEONmIzUqA

Can an observant Jew be politically left? This organization says yes. קען מען זײַן פֿרום און פּאָליטיש לינק־געשטימט? איין אָרגאַניזאַציע זאָגט אַז יאָ. אויף אַ פֿאַרזאַמלונג לעצטנס פֿון „די הלכהשע לינקע“, שרײַבט שלום בערגער, האָט מען געזוכט אין דער הלכה יענע פּרינציפּן „װאָס זײַנען נישט נאַציאָנאַליסטיש, נאָר הומאַניסטיש און מאָראַליש.“ At a recent forum of The Halachic Left, Zackary Sholem Berger reports, participants sought examples in Jewish law "that expressed humanist and moral values rather than nationalist ones." /yiddish/759280/can-an-observant-jew-be-politically-left-this-organization-says-yes/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL3X-pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHguMUrL_9erqibth7SU3CwsAc3TCyskmY1gjAXgYqJTl-rjLLAYUKIU1Pca3_aem_6kIYtMxUeESF6LzW-YMlZQ