What's the deal, you’re wondering, with Jewish people and Chinese restaurants on Christmas?
traces the long history of America's Jewish Christmas dinner and how immigration and cultural diets played a part in creating the tradition. It even found a place in the record of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tku61sKhPGo
Local Chinese restaurateurs are preparing for the Christmas crowds, Solomon writes, and Jewish South Floridians will be there, says food critic Hanna Raskin: "There's a need to observe tradition in December, no matter what religion you belong to."