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American Jews have a long history of breaking out the chopsticks in late December
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Culture How the world’s greatest lox slicer celebrates his 93rd birthday
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Students at Peking University translated the subtitles and shared the clip on China’s video platform, Bilibili, attracting 3,000 views after one day.
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Forverts in English Eating Chinese meant proving that the shtetl had been left behind
A study done by two sociologists helps explain how this American Jewish tradition relates to fundamental issues of identity.
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Culture How the sesame seed became the most Jewish of all ingredients
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In Atlanta, just off a road called Christmas Lane, a Kroger grocery store stands in the heart of Toco Hills, the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Inside the kosher supermarket, a small glatt kosher Chinese restaurant — Chai Peking — occupies a space of just 500 square feet. And around Yuletide, the traffic on Christmas…
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