Israel’s biggest source of pride at the Beijing 2008 Olympics became its biggest blight this past week, after bronze medal-winning windsurfer Shahar Zubari called Chinese people “sh*ts” in an interview published September 5th in Israel’s Yediot Aharanot.
\”Other tourists, especially Jews, were really blown away when we told them about the bar mitzvah. Lots of people said it was the best story they\’d heard yet in Beijing.\”
Not surprisingly, Israel\’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics was not won in Beijing, but rather in Qingdao, where the sailing competition is being held.
The Shi Jia school put on events over the last two years to teach the students about Israel, how to say \”Shalom,\” even had its students Skype with a school in Jerusalem. Of course, the school was following the progress of Israeli athletes along with China\’s.
Security checks are no longer just for airports in Beijing
\’Bitachon\’ on his jacket (in Hebrew) means \’security\’
In a strange Jewish sports irony, the gold for this half-Jewish team may come at a price to the legacy of iconic Jewish sports figure Mark Spitz
The largest contingent in Israeli Olympic history is eyeing its biggest medal haul as the Olympics get under way here.
More than 20,000 European Jews fleeing the Nazis found a home in Shanghai, many thanks to a Chinese diplomat in Austria. Honors for Ho Fengshan and a new museum recall that past.
Beijing has had an organized Jewish community since the late 1970s, the city\’s congregations cooperate well and Jews coming for the Olympics will find plenty of choices for davening.
From the opening of the first synagogue in Shanghai to the start of diplomatic relations between Israel and China, some key dates in Chinese Jewish history.
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