Actually, Jews eating and Chinese restaurants goes back to 1899, when the American Jewish Journal - a weekly publication - criticized Jews for eating at non-kosher restaurants and singling out, in ...

In both Jewish and Chinese cultures, the home is more than a dwelling—it is a sacred space that reflects the soul of a family ...

If there’s a single identifiable moment when Jewish Christmas—the annual American tradition where Jews overindulge in Chinese food on December 25—transitioned from kitsch into codified ...

Okay, so tell me when eating Chinese food on Christmas first comes into the picture. Is that a Jewish-American tradition? Yes. It begins at the end of the 19th century, on the Lower East Side ...

A Chinese chicken soup in New Hampshire, inspired by a Jewish recipe We carried on into the afternoon discussing our people's cultural affinities. "Jews love Chinese food," I pointed out.

The trip, the first of its kind, came on the heels of a separate seminar in Shanghai in December, where 35 Chinese policy-makers, government advisers and academics met with Israeli scholars to ...

In Kaifeng, where Sephardic Jews from the Silk Road settled in the 12th century, their descendants are rediscovering lost religious practices and petitioning Israel for recognition.

Five Chinese Kaifeng Jews making AliyahTuvia Gering, Shavei Israel’s emissary to Kaifeng In the first Aliyah from the ancient Chinese Jewish community of Kaifeng in the last seven years, five ...

If there’s a single identifiable moment when Jewish Christmas—the annual American tradition where Jews overindulge on Chinese food on December 25—transitioned from kitsch into codified ...

Editor’s note: In honor of Christmas 2023 and the season of Jewish people marking the holiday with Chinese food, we are republishing this story. It was originally published on Dec. 21, 2021.