It all adds up to an uneven show, but one in the center's tradition of invigorating experiment.
Competition among exchanges has grown more intense in recent years as investors seeking speed, lower costs and greater liquidity have flocked to electronic platforms that pay little heed to financial centers or tradition.
As Cruz has recently sought to position himself as a viable – and predictably conservative – alternative to Trump's blend of populism and demagoguery, Kasich is looking to highlight the legitimacy of his candidacy as a traditional main street Republican and ground his campaign within his party's center-right tradition.
It has become a matter of local and national pride, while maintaining, as culture did in the old days, a sense of deference toward the European centers and traditions — enriched at a later stage, in both cases, by a globally minded eclecticism.
"I had no idea how much mustard people eat in New York," said Mr. Bernamoff, who grew up in Montreal, where the Jewish deli tradition centers on smoked meat, the Canadian answer to pastrami.
The site has made its own annual sales tradition centered on the Academy Awards.
The Food Trail is a new spin on hawker centers, a Singaporean tradition in which cooks sell their signature dishes to admiring customers for low prices.
BERGEN COUNTY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER "Tempos and Traditions," Jewish themes in classical music, with Oscar Ravina, conductor, and Artie Bresslier, jazz and klezmer performer.
"Students just accept that it's something people are going to do," said Katherine Stutzman, a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr, where an annual tradition centers on leaping naked into a reflecting pool.
This tradition, centered in Rakow in Poland, flourished until 1660 when its members were forced by governmental persecution to flee the country.
Nembutsu practices in early Buddhist tradition centered on mindfulness exercises conducted in veneration of Sakyamuni Buddha, and included elements of bodily worship and the reverent repetition of the name of the Buddha.
