Rukhl Schaechter

Rukhl Schaechter is the Yiddish editor of the online Forward newspaper and host of the YouTube series Yiddish Word of the Day. She also produces Yiddish cooking shows together with Yiddish food scholar and chef Eve Jochnowitz. Working as a Forverts writer and editor since 1998, she has garnered years of experience in writing news articles and personal essays in Yiddish and English, and won a number of Rockower Awards by the American Jewish Press Association.