Schaechter, Sore-Rukhl
May 12, 1957-
A journalist and an editor, she was born in Bronx, New York, a daughter of the linguist Mordkhe Schaechter. Her mother was Charne Schaechter (earlier Safyan).
She was a student in the Bronx state schools and in the Sholem Aleichem Shul 21, afterwards in the United Middle School. She earned two advanced degrees: from Bernard College in the Jewish Teachers' Seminar; and a Masters degree in early childhood development from Bank Street College.
For her masters degree, she created a curiculum for young children to strengthen the speaking of a minority language.
She debuted in print with poems and stories in the New York journals:
Yugntruf (Call to Youth),
Tsukunft (Future)
Won the MHRSh"K prize for literature.
She has been a Yiddish teacher at Arbeter Ring (Workers Circle) and the Kinneret Day School in Bronx, NY teaching adult courses.
She became a reporter for the Forverts in 1998, and since 2017 she has been the editor of the
Forverts (Forward),
which became an internet weekly . She is the first woman to edit the Yiddish Forverts. Through the years, she has written over a hundred articles for the Forverts in the column "Nayes far Bneybayis" (News for the Household).
She produces and runs a YouTube teaching series entitled
Dos Yidishe Vort fun Tog (Yiddish Word of the Day),
and together with Eve Jochnowitz, an online Yiddish cooking show:
Es Gezunterheyt! (Eat in Good Health)
In 2025 she released a Yiddsh podcast of articles from the Forverts.
She lives in New York (2025).