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Meet Isaac Zhou M_, born 01/23/22
This beautiful baby, son of my nephew Yakov, gets his first name from the Old Testament’s Isaac, and his…
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Experience Kosher Chinese Food
Many Jews love Chinese food and don’t keep kosher. Offer them “Kosher Chinese Food” and they think, “Death…
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Jews and Chinese Masking Together
It’s Christmas Eve, 2016. Two masked men enter a Chinese family gathering of about fifty people at a…
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Ethnic Day, Part Two
Okay, kids, let’s line up and celebrate America’s diversity, if only to piss off the nativists. After…
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Ethnic Day, Part One
The preschool’s announcement: “Wednesday is Ethnic Day! Come dressed to show the place you came from.” “Came…
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Jewish and Chinese Numerology; Mishugas with Numbers
Most people think eighteen is just a good uniform number for a quarterback. For Jews, the number eighteen…
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A Jewish Girl Dates a Chinese Man. Why?
As far as we knew, the boys in Sara’s life were all Jewish. There was a Jewish…
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The Hasid and the Girl from Shanghai
In the spring of 2014, the third-year students at U of Virginia Law School looked forward to graduation.…
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