“maybe if we Yidden would stop idolizing the Japanese culture we wouldn’t have had problems in Japan with the 3 bochurim”
The Japanese did not turn over Jews to the Nazis. And the Bocherim got caught red-handed smuggling drugs; had it been Singapore they would have received death sentences. They actually got off easily.
” The Jews were redeemed from Egypt because they did not change their unique names, tongue, and clothing. “
However, we did eat similar foods. As Jews have in every country in which we have been exiled. I have a Jewish-Indian cookbook on my shelf. And that is how we got all this Eastern European stuff that people call “heimish”.