SIEGEL: Which raises the question of a phrase sometimes used to describe Chinese food - safe trayf, using the Hebrew word for un-kosher food, trayf. So this marriage between Jews and Chinese food really goes back to when Jews and Chinese people were immigrants in the United States. Actually, Jews eating and Chinese restaurants goes back to 1899, when the American Jewish Journal - a weekly publication - criticized Jews for eating at non-kosher restaurants and singling out, in particular, Jews who flocked to Chinese restaurants. This has become quite common over the years. SIEGEL: It's either the discovery by Jews of Chinese food on Christmas or the discovery of Jewish customers by a Chinese restaurant on Christmas, whichever way you want to look at it. That's the first written citation of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas. PLAUT: At least since 1935, according to The New York Times, which cites that a man by the name of Eng Shee Chuck brought chow mein on Christmas Day to the Jewish Children's Home in Newark, N.J. SIEGEL: You have a chapter in the book called "We Eat Chinese Food On Christmas." How long has this been going on? He's the author of "A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis The Season To Be Jewish." Welcome to the program. And as part of our exploration of holiday traditions, we have invited Rabbi Joshua Plaut to our studios. Chinese food on Christmas has become as American Jewish as apple pie. But when it's time to send out for lunch on Christmas Day, I do as so many of my co-religionists do - I send out for Chinese food. Let one more Christmas observer have the day off. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences with a major in unmanned aircraft systems operations.What is the most American thing a Jew can do on Christmas? Well, for me, it's to go to work. Zachary Waller, graduated from the University of North Dakota's John D.Ken Polovitz, University of North Dakota's John D.New York Times: Just Don’t Call It a Drone.Time: Majoring in Drones: Higher Ed Embraces Unmanned Aircraft.Miami Herald: Drone bill heads to Gov.Idaho and Tennessee already have similar laws on the books. So far, 37 states have introduced legislation placing limits on the use of drones.įlorida is poised to pass a law that would require the police to get a warrant before using drones for surveillance. There has been some push back from states who are nervous about the use of drones. "The FAA is currently looking into building six test sites where they would study how to do that. "The real roadblock there is integrating the drones into commercial airspace," Polovits said. "We have a joke around the office: five or six years ago we couldn't spell UAS, now we have a whole program on it," Ken Polovits, assistant dean at the School of Aerospace Sciences told Here & Now.Ĭurrently, private businesses are not allowed to operate drones, but the FAA expects to have the initial steps for allowing the private use of drones in place by 2015. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences provided one of the first programs in the country. Some schools already have programs in operation. Nearly 100 schools have applied for permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate drones. The Arlington, Virginia-based Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International says the prospects for the unmanned aircraft industry are “virtually limitless.”Īmerican colleges and universities are trying to fill that demand. "We have a joke around the office: five or six years ago we couldn’t spell UAS, now we have a whole program on it." Ken Polovits Industry experts are expecting the demand for drones, sometimes called unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), to explode. could create 70,000 jobs and generate $13 billion in economic activity in the coming decade. (Don Ryan/AP)Ī recent study estimates the drone industry in the U.S. It’s a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans’ everyday lives, performing countless useful functions. Facebook Email This photo taken March 26, 2013, shows flight test pilot Alex Gustafson carrying an InsituScanEagle unmanned aircraft in preparation for a flight in Arlington, Ore.
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