Culture
Sukkot Is the Best Jewish Holiday. Here’s Why.
By Lynn Levy (Kveller) – I know, I know. I KNOW. The shofar has finally stopped ringing in your ears, you’ve managed to get the honey out of the couch cushions, and you are fully […]
Articles by Chai There!
Food
9 Stuffed Dishes You’ll Crave This Sukkot
By Rachel Myerson (Hey Alma) – Although I grew up eating stuffed foods on Sukkot, I never knew the reason why. As this year’s holiday season approached, I decided that I’d had enough of following tradition just […]
Culture
I love ‘Seinfeld’ — why doesn’t the rest of my generation?
By Hannah Feuer (The Forward) – Seinfeld had a mythic presence in my childhood. The show went off the air three years before I was born, but that didn’t stop it from permeating my psyche. When I […]
Culture
Chai There! Podcast Episode 10 – Lily Ploit & Max Morin, 2026/27 NWC BBYO Presidents
Shalom and welcome to the tenth episode of the Chai There! Podcast Chai There! is a culturally Jewish Podcast powered by AJN It’s all about the future on this episode of Chai There! On […]
Culture
5 New Rituals To Try This Yom Kippur
By Kveller Staff (Kveller) – Yom Kippur is just a few days away, and some of the ways we observe are obvious: the fast, synagogue, practicing teshuvah, or repentance. But if those don’t work for you, […]
Books
Alberta educators launch online courses to teach young people how to read classic Jewish books
by Zenith Wolfe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The CJN) – When Darren and Suzanne Alexander’s eldest daughter aged out of Jewish day schools and youth programming in Edmonton in the late 2010s, they didn’t know […]
Jewish Celebrities
Noah Wyle wins an Emmy for playing one of TV’s most Jewish doctors
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) – Noah Wyle on Monday night won his second consecutive Emmy for playing Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch on “The Pitt.” The win also marked a second victory for one of television’s more […]
Jewish Celebrities
‘Dancing With the Stars’ Is Getting Even More Jewish for Season 35
By Evelyn Frick (Kveller) – When the cast of “Dancing with the Stars” samba, tango, cha-cha, waltz and freestyle onto the dance floor for season 35 on Sept. 15, it’ll be an extremely Jewish affair. Last […]
Mitzvah Projects
Carmine Groberman’s Mitzvah Project combines a good deed with community action
by Maxine Fischbein, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (AJNews) – There is a time-honoured lament that when it comes to Bar Mitzvahs there is sometimes more bar than mitzvah. That is not the case for the […]
Books
From fake burps to reverse tashlich, new children’s books bring the High Holidays to life
by Penny Schwartz (JTA) — A bumper crop of new kids’ books about the High Holidays is hitting shelves in 2026, surprising close observers of Jewish children’s literature. “It is unusual for multiple Sukkot books […]