Yiddish Word of the Day: Greetings and Counter-Greetings

As people continue to spend their days and evenings at home, due to coronavirus social distancing restrictions, the Forverts has launched a daily series of short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day.

The series, written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and how they might be used in everyday situations. 

Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor who is shomeret Shabbat.

We posted the first of this series in May. Now that the Forverts is continuing the series, we'll be sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of Jewish Humor Central.
Today's phrases are very useful greetings and counter-greetings for every day and for special occasions.
 
Enjoy!

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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: New Year Greetings from Children in the Former Soviet Union

Did you know? The Jewish Agency's activities in the former Soviet Union make a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of students and young Jews through schools, Hebrew classes, summer camps, Israel travel programs and more. 

A few participants in these programs wanted to wish you a happy, healthy sweet new year!

These children are from Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

From the children and from the staff of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Shana Tova!

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Wishing All of Our Readers a Shanah Tovah - Happy New Year 5778

Thanks to our thousands of loyal subscribers and casual readers worldwide who have joined us during the year.

We started this blog on October 5, 2009 and it's been going strong with more than 2300 blog entries over the last eight years.  

We appreciate your loyalty and we hope to keep bringing you a daily mix of Jewish humor in all of its forms -- traditional, eclectic, musical, unbelievable but true, and just funny, tempered with touches of nostalgia and Yiddishe nachas. 

5777 has been an amazing year for us -- a year of wonderful friendship, a year in which our nine books on Jewish humor have been selling on Amazon.com, and in which we performed 20 comedy shows and lectures in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Montreal.

We'll be attending services for Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat, and we'll be back posting again on Sunday.  Here's wishing a happy, healthy, joyous, prosperous and funny New Year from our family to yours!