Every year at Christmas, Jews in the Washington region and around the country participate in a time-honored holiday tradition: eating Chinese food.

A local Orthodox synagogue has launched an organization that makes it easier for restaurants to get kosher certified.

A GW freshman and a rabbi team up to bring kosher deli to the streets of D.C.

On Friday and Saturday night, Jews across the world will sit down with family and friends for Passover Seders, retelling the story of their ancestral exodus from bondage in Egypt and partaking in a festive meal. As the week carries on, many will continue to subsist on matzoh, forsaking chametz—grains and the leavened products they produce (bread, pasta, and beer to name a few).

Sixth & Rye, Spike Mendelsohn’s new kosher deli food truck, debuted this morning on the curb outside the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Lines, unsurprisingly, were long — but the product was worth the wait.

Written by DCist contributor Andrew Chriss Falls Church offers a diverse array of ethnic cuisine, providing a homespun, lower cost alternative to higher-priced and better-decorated offerings in the District. That being said, it’s been a while since the days when I frequented the BBQ, kosher deli, and pho establishments in Loehmann’s Plaza. On this night, the destination was Eden Center, Falls Church’s Vietnamese epicenter on Wilson Boulevard in Seven Corners. But where to eat? The…

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week’s “Segway Mom” and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It’s not West Side Story, but about as close as they’ll get. They’re also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried…

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year! Austinist was all about controversy as new construction to increase urban density ran rampant in 2006, as did threats to the city’s image from gigantic corporations looking to set up shop in town, leading…

D.C. residents have enough trouble getting people outside the city to take our pleas for fair legislative representation seriously. But the struggle may be more difficult than we ever feared. It seems we’ve been going about this whole campaign all wrong. We’ve been appealing to the rest of the country’s sense of fairness when we should have been trying to convince them that we’re not just a figment of their high school civics teachers’ collective…

Despite (or maybe because of) their stadium issues, the Washington Nationals and their new owners are reopening RFK Stadium this weekend, introducing new concession stands and a food court and cleaning the place up a bit. There will also be fan festivals before the games and decent pre-game concerts, with U.S. Army bands playing on Friday, go-go legend Chuck Brown on Saturday, and Virginia’s Pat McGee Band on Sunday. And the part we’re most interested…