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In my opinion, while Jericho had/has a large extremely secular Ashkenazi population, the community never had, what you could refer to as, a Jewish character.
It's just the opposite: the majority of community-wide events are scheduled for Friday night or Saturday morning; elementary school classes have Halloween, Christmas and St. Valentine's Day parties, but no Jewish New Year nor Purim parties; only Gentile food in the school district cafeterias; etc., etc., etc. The only nod to Jewish sensitivities is that there are no Christmas trees in the school district or library.
It's my guess that if Torah observant Jews did begin to move into the area, the Ashkenazi secular Jews, not the East Asians, would be the first to bail out.
just out of curiosity, do any public elementary schools have such parties?
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