ITT the Jews and the Chinese get along GREAT

lol @ ISRAEL text message

awww that is making me feel all emo

ha maybe it's supposed to be a dude named Israel texting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOse8IoxUTI

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/196382/chinas-secrets-of-jewish-success

In the best-seller The Spirit of Jewish Culture (the English title on the cover is Whats [sic] Behind Jewish Cleverness) by Sai Ni Ya, one of He Xiongfei’s pseudonyms, he writes that Jews “are the most intelligent, mysterious, and the wealthiest people in the world. In a sense, not knowing about Jews equals not knowing the world! When Jews sneeze at home, all the banks in the world would catch a cold one by one. Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind; the antagonism between the East and the West, in a sense, can be said to be that between two Jews—Jesus and Marx.”

Oy

Vey

Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind;

let's do this

hang on let me clear with the Elders of Zion first

When you take over, please remember who started this thread!

Five Jews sounds like the next hip bagel joint

H invited our neighbors (two kids who are watched during the day by their Chinese grandmother) for an impromptu playdate after seeing the grandmother (who speaks virtually no English and cares for the kids) roaming the hallways in boredom. The grandmother went to her apartment and came back with an envelope with $20 in it for Chinese New Year. Are we supposed to give her/them something in return?

I mean if we just give THEM $20, doesn't that defeat the purpose? But if we give them more, it seems competitive and if we give less it seems cheap. So how does this work?

don't give anything but maybe invite them to dinner later

ooh yeah, power move

That's a good idea. Parents are really nice -- they've gotten our kids birthday gifts (and we did the same in return) even though we haven't really had the change to hang out.

http://i.imgur.com/m3kucf1.jpg

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/718161821270585344

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestry_theory

Courtesy bump for Christmas.

Love Jews, love China, all good. Merry Christmas!

Wait I don't actually love Jared Kushner, just need to point that out.

i got my christmas chinese takeout - place was packed

Last year I had hoisin with my latkes and it was A++

Out for Korean tonight.

https://i.imgur.com/Hh7uItO.jpg

there's been a big influx of orthodox jews visiting the traditional chinese medicine shop down the street, i assume related to the measles outbreak.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/chinese-itzik-haifa

Regarding the top Chinese executive in Israel, who chose to learn Hebrew as a young man:

...his grandfather told him that Jews were smart—people of the book. Everyone thinks this in China, he said. If his years communicating with real Jews in Israel has disabused him of this notion, he was too polite to say so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/dining/ed-schoenfeld-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/nyregion/new-york-shun-lee-chinese-restaurants.html

paywalled, i *love* Shun Lee West/Cafe but never been to the Palace. Was aware of the new location but haven't bothered to investigate though it's much closer to where i live. Just assumed the experience and decor wouldn't be the same.

https://www.thechinesequest.com/

very cute, this is one of my favorite things that's come out of the expansion of Chinatown along the Port Washington line so far.