#forverts

[daisyofthenight]

Um sholom aleichem my dudes this is the content I crave

Baking, Yiddish, Kiddos baking in Yiddish. The YouTube algorithm could deliver nothing better.

[hederigerenthag]

[infosisraelnews]

Michelle Weiss, première maire orthodoxe juive aux États-Unis : un tournant discret mais historique

L’information aurait pu passer inaperçue dans un cycle médiatique saturé par les crises internationales. Pourtant, elle marque une rupture majeure dans la vie politique américaine : Michelle Weiss, républicaine, observante et active dans sa communauté, est devenue la première femme juive orthodoxe élue maire aux États-Unis. Son élection à University Heights, en banlieue de Cleveland (Ohio), a été…

Michelle Weiss, première maire orthodoxe juive aux États-Unis : un tournant discret mais historique

[bialerwochenblat]

Eve Jachnowitz who recently translated Fania Lewando’s Vegetarish-dietisher kokhbukh into English has a great cooking show at Forverts Video Channel, where she cooks “in Yiddish” with Rukhl Schaechter.

[aza-min-mentsch]

Forverts (that is, the original yiddish version of the jewish daily forward) publishes some great articles on topics you won't see in english-language jewish press, for example here's one about the Nakba through the lens of Hebrew poetry and another reviewing the memoirs of prominent anti-Zionist Israeli Akiva Orr. But I guess to balance it out they also publish absolute rightist drek like this piece where Mahmoud Abbas is seriously described as a "preacher of a worn out idea - Pan-Arabism" like really?

[immigrationnewsdigest]

#EthnicNewspapers The #Yiddish #Forverts Goes Biweekly in Print

The weekly Yiddish Forward is cutting back to a biweekly print schedule amid declining circulation and growing financial pressure.

The Yiddish Forward will increase its focus on its website, which will be updated daily with news and multimedia content starting February 4.

Now the last of the Yiddish-language secular newspapers, the Yiddish Forward has published continuously since 1897.

http://forward.com/articles/169876/the-yiddish-forverts-goes-biweekly-in-print/?p=all