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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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