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Why Eating Chinese Food on Christmas is a Sacred Tradition for American Jews

The Hebrew year is 5774 and the Chinese year is 4710. That must mean, the joke goes, that against all odds the Jews went without Chinese food for 1,064 years. In fact, Jewish love for Chinese food is neither hallucinated nor arbitrary. It is very real and very determined, and it originates roughly a century ago, in a place about four miles away from Mile End: the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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Keywords: 
Food, Immigrants, Judaism, Christmas