Chai Jew was invented on a warm summer night in a hollow of the Wellfleet Woods on Cape Cod by 4 couples from distant parts of the Northeast.
A great quantity of smoked salmon, lobsters, corn and wine had been consumed…we must admit. Some poetry was read and then a haiku.
Someone realized that each of the 4 couples consisted of one Jew and one non-Jew. A discussion erupted about Jewish pain and suffering…one clever thought piled on another…and in a flash we were all spouting jewish haikus that were quickly renamed Chai Jew.
Yes, it was that sudden.
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