This afternoon, just as our lab’s research meeting was about to start, one of my students, who is from China, asked me an interesting question.<\/p>\n
“Why,” he asked, “do Jewish people have Christmas dinner at Chinese restaurants?”<\/p>\n
There was a pause.<\/p>\n
“Jewish people,” I finally said, “don’t have Christmas dinner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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