Tag: Rachel Gross

  • Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither? Forward 2015-08-21 Rachel E. Gross When I was four years old, my father introduced me to his colleague, Jing. “Are you Chinese?” I asked, eyeing her shrewdly. “Yes,” she replied. “So am I,” I said. “And shoe-ish, too!” My father likes to tell this story,…

  • Part Asian-American, All Jewish? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-02-10 Rachel Gross, Editor Moment Magazine I was five years old when my mother threatened to give me away to journalist Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, had just announced their intention to adopt a half-Chinese, half-Jewish child.…