The Asian-Jewish connection: Is it really kosher to call Asians the “new Jews”? Read more: http://w

From SFGate.com:

The notion that Asians and Jews are two shoots from the same cultural rootstock is an old but evergreen meme.

You see it in fringe theories about the Lost Tribes of Israel—there’s an entire body of cryptoarchaeological canon that uses similarities between customs, language and naming convention to “prove” that the ancient vanished Jewish clans ended up in China, India or Japan. (Japan’s 50,000-member Makuya sect, which has as its central dogma that the Japanese are descendants of a lost Jewish tribe, keep kosher, speak Hebrew and use the seven-armed menorah as their symbol.)

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