NPR

NPR Student Podcast Challenge: Why many Jewish families order Chinese on Christmas

It's a tradition for many Jewish families: Chinese takeout on Christmas. How did this happen? A group of New York City high schoolers shared their reporting with NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. This ...
Yahoo

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese food has become a staple of many Jewish Americans' traditions each Dec. 25. Christina Horsten/picture alliance via Getty ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish tradition is a polemic against loneliness — on Passover and the rest of the year

New people around our “table” push us away from moral and spiritual complacency, writes an educator at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. It is a lonely time to be a North American Jew.
Religion News Service

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

(The Conversation) — What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a shift for Christian colleagues. (The Conversation) — ...
The Conversation

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time‑honored tradition for American Jews

There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish ...