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The article discusses the tradition of Jewish Americans eating Chinese food on Christmas Day, mentioning that it has become a popular and busy day for Chinese restaurants in places like New York City.

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December 23's Short Reads

Future of Jewish Will you support our mission?

JTA A day after being heckled for his Israel views, Ritchie Torres gets a hero’s welcome at Bronx Jewish school

Forward Palestinian advocacy groups seek ‘leverage’ with new political wings

JTA What to watch on Christmas? Your Jewish guide to this winter’s biggest movies

Forward 'Ashamed at how my heart has shrunk': Takeaways from 10 days of reporting in Israel

Forward ‘Everybody needs to be uncomfortable’: Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s tireless campaign to bring her son home

JTA UN Security Council adopts resolution urging aid to Gazans, stops short of calling for ceasefire

Forward Maxwell Jacob Friedman — the latest pro wrestler in the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame — is glad to be seen as a strong Jew

Forward A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight

Forward Why it's time to celebrate a glorious Yiddish writer who would have turned 100 this year

JTA 9 classic Jewish New York movies you can stream right now

JTA Prominent LA Conservative synagogue relocates Shabbat services due to planned pro-Palestinian protest

The Cholent University of Washington Grapples with Anti-Semitism

Forward How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?

Emes Ve-Emunah Is Rav Dovid Leibel a Closet Centrist?

Forward For Christmas, the story of the Jewish-born Christian missionary who translated the New Testament to Yiddish

Forward Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?

JTA The top 10 Jewish sports moments of 2023, from Israel to the NFL

JTA After Israel plunged into war, these Jews moved there anyway

Lilith 21 Books We Want to Read in 2024

Forward Can elite private schools win the fight against antisemitism?

Moment From the Newsletter | Degrees of Evil—and Joy—in 2023

JTA Jewish advocates demand policy changes to combat antisemitism at NYC public high schools

Kveller 8 Ladino Phrases of Hope

Jewish Chronicle Recipe: Spicy Szechuan turkey

Jewish Chronicle Recipe: Egg fried rice

Future of Jewish These questions will change your relationship with Israel.

Forward Suozzi, running against an IDF veteran for Santos’ former seat, takes a weekend trip to Israel

Jewish Chronicle Shabbat times from December 22 to December 29

Forward With pro-Palestinian protest scheduled across the street, major LA congregation decides to pray elsewhere

JTA This day of communal Kaddish, enacted after the Holocaust, is just right for this moment

Tablet What the Pope Knew

Jewish Insider The Obama Mideast expert guiding VP Harris on foreign policy

Jewish Insider Jewish music fans question artists’ silence after Oct. 7

Tablet When a Broader Religious Pluralism Began to Flower

Tablet Taking Judaism Personally

Forward Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’

Forward US charges alleged Hezbollah operative in 1994 Argentina AMIA Jewish center bombing

JTA A historic synagogue creates tension between Egypt’s few remaining Jews and their government

Future of Jewish Why the Palestinians Lie So Much

Mishpacha Home Front Ep. 39 (12.21.23)

Forward As the war rages on, Jewish day schools still plan to send students to Israel

JTA 11 Jewish things to do this Christmas in New York City

Recent podcast episodes

RABBI AKIVA

22 Dec 2023 · Jewish Lives

Ghaith al-Omari on What Palestinians Really Think about Hamas, Israel, War, and Peace

22 Dec 2023 · Tikvah

The Arrest of the Baal Tanya

21 Dec 2023 · Jewish History Uncensored

Unorthodox in Israel: Special Delivery

22 Dec 2023 · Unorthodox

Revisionist Journalism

22 Dec 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The “Opinions, Opinions, Opinions!” Edition

21 Dec 2023 · Promised Podcast

The Third Way to Peace and Justice

18 Dec 2023 · Tel Aviv Review

Young, Indoctrinated, and Dangerous

18 Dec 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Unorthodox in Israel: What’s the Buzz

21 Dec 2023 · Unorthodox

Israel at War – When the Guns are Silenced

21 Dec 2023 · For Heaven's Sake

Hear why Victoria, B.C. Jews don’t feel safe going downtown on the weekends since Oct. 7

19 Dec 2023 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Israel at War – My Heart is Broken

18 Dec 2023 · For Heaven's Sake

An insider’s account of the Harvard Antisemitism Committee — with Rabbi David Wolpe

22 Dec 2023 · Call Me Back

Before We Say Goodbye to 2023

21 Dec 2023 · 18forty

Hamas: Past, Present, and Future

21 Dec 2023 · On the Nose

Before We Say Goodbye to 2023

21 Dec 2023 · 18forty

Ghaith al-Omari on What Palestinians Really Think about Hamas, Israel, War, and Peace

22 Dec 2023 · Tikvah

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Wartime polls & unexpected conclusions

21 Dec 2023 · What Matters Now

Should Harvard Be Burned Down?

21 Dec 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Rocky Mountain Low

20 Dec 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Poll Vault

19 Dec 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Around the War in 80 Days

22 Dec 2023 · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Eli Paley: What’s Next: The Future of Israel’s Haredi Community

19 Dec 2023 · 18forty

12/23/23 – Shiur 448 – Is Israel an “occupier” of Palestinian land? Who owns “from the River to the Sea”?

22 Dec 2023 · Halacha Headlines

‘The Houthis don’t care about the Palestinians. They are attacking Israel to gain support’

18 Dec 2023 · Haaretz Weekly

Shemona Peraqim of HaRambam - Rabbi Joseph Dweck

20 Dec 2023 · The Habura

4-Year-Old Hostage Abigail Edan is Free–Her Family is On a Mission to #BringThemAllHome

21 Dec 2023 · People of the Pod

Eli Paley: What’s Next: The Future of Israel’s Haredi Community

19 Dec 2023 · 18forty

Jew hatred in Canada is scary now—but it’s not 1939, say Holocaust educators

20 Dec 2023 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

What's the deal with Zionism?

21 Dec 2023 · Bonjour Chai

The Gaza War, Personally and Professionally

20 Dec 2023 · Israel Policy Pod

Unorthodox in Israel: At the Shuk

20 Dec 2023 · Unorthodox

Unorthodox in Israel: Dogs of War

19 Dec 2023 · Unorthodox