Won Ton or Kreplach? How We Raise Children in Our Chinese-Jewish Family

Jack Botwinik

I always knew my Oriental wife was Jewish; after all, she grew up eating Chinese food!I grew up in a Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal. My mother is Sephardic Italian and my father is a Holocaust survivor from Poland. I speak Italian with my mother and Yiddish with my father and siblings. My wife, Belinda Cheung, was born and raised in Hong Kong and came to Canada when she was 17.I married Belinda in 1999. Our marriage has been working wonderfully well.

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