Month: May 2026

Culture

Chai There! Podcast Episode 3 – Dana Wylie, star of the Stars and Stories Live Performance: Leonard Cohen & Joni Mitchell: The Untold Love Story

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Shalom and welcome to the third episode of the Chai There! Podcast Chai There! is a culturally Jewish Podcast powered by AJN In Episode 3 of the Chai There! Podcast hosts Addison Borhaven and David […]
Holiday

Watching ‘Gilmore Girls’ Is the Perfect Shavuot Tradition

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By A.R. Vishny (Hey Alma) –  Time may have ceased to have meaning, but the Jewish holidays are still happening, and yes, this week is Shavuot, the ancient harvest festival that commemorates the receiving of the Torah on […]
Food

Egg in a Bagel Hole for an Epic Breakfast Sandwich

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By Aly Miller (The Nosher) – Why eat your fried egg on a bagel when you can have an egg in your bagel? The geography of a bagel, after all, is perfectly-suited for an egg-in-the-hole, unlike toast, which requires you to awkwardly […]
Movies

EJFF continues this week with more films and activities

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(AJNews) – The Edmonton Jewish Film Festival started on May 3 and has enjoyed wonderful community participation and great reviews of the three films that have screened to date. This coming week will showcase some of the […]
Culture

So Maybe I’m a Stereotypical Jewish Mother. So What?

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By Laurie Saroff (Kveller) –  My teenage son watched the coming-of-age movie “Brighton Beach Memoirs” in school. He liked the film, which I took as a good sign since he didn’t like “The Chosen.” one of […]
Jewish Celebrities

These Jewish Celebrities Love Mah Jongg

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By Lior Zaltzman (Kveller) –  Mah jongg is not just your bubbe’s game anymore; it hasn’t been for a while. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there’s been a real boom in the culture around the Chinese […]
Sports

Jewish Roller Derby Takes on the World

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By Evelyn Frick (Hey Alma) –  When Alex Knopoff arrived in Innsbruck, Austria for the 2025 Roller Derby World Cup, she knew there would be a few shocks to the system. There was the nine-and-a-half-hour time […]