"Jewish-flavored"

[Drew Danielson]

"Philip E. Cleary" wrote:
>
> While browsing through the personal ads in the classified section of the
> latest edition of "Harvard Magazine," I saw a couple of ads in which people
> referred to themselves as "Jewish-flavored," an expression that is new and
> somewhat unclear to me.
>
> Is this (a) merely a humorous way of saying "Jewish" - my first thought; (b)
> a way of saying that one is Jewish but not observant - my second thought; or
> (c) something else?
>
> Phil Cleary

To me, it sounds like "flavored" means something like "intangibly,
qualitatively representative of [sth]ness".