During my three days here, I saw a decorative wrought-iron Star of David on a front door in the former Jewish ghetto, a synagogue repurposed as a museum, a park plaque in Hebrew and a onetime ... Both the sculpture and the wall are powerful reminders of the coupling of Jewish and Chinese history. read more
Both Jews and Asians will seek education beyond a bachelor's. Amy Chua, the Tiger Mother and a Yale Law professor, is married to a Jewish professor, Jeb Rubenfeld, and Asians and Jews make up a pretty solid number of professors. In American universities, Asians are the new Jews. read more
Jewish men like Chinese women because unlike Jewish women, Chinese women cook. And Jewish men like Chinese food. Two birds with one stone. read more
So the Jews' proximity to Chinese restaurants was important, and let's not discount the fact that Chinese food tastes good and costs little. When I asked my parents why, when they were courting in the 1940s, their dates always ended with a Chinese meal, and why we continued to eat in Chinese restaurants as a family more often than at other kinds of restaurants, the answer was simple and obvious. read more