Israel comes to Beijing with its largest team, high hopes
Alison Klayman
August 7, 2008
The largest contingent in Israeli Olympic history is eyeing its biggest medal haul as the Olympics get under way here.
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Israeli swimmer’s Olympic dreams marred by father’s death
Roy Eitan
August 7, 2008
Sadly, his father won\’t be there to see his son compete after an accident at the family\’s Netanya home claimed Costa Mendel\’s life.
Welcome to the Orwell Olympics
Marty Kaplan
August 5, 2008
Why do I have the feeling that if hundreds of billions of dollars\’ worth of Chinese imports and of American business investments in China were not at stake, quiet diplomacy wouldn\’t be the slogan du jour?
Key dates in recent Chinese Jewish history
Alison Klayman
August 4, 2008
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.
Your guide to Jewish Beijing
Alison Klayman
August 4, 2008
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.
Recalling Shanghai’s Jewish past
Alison Klayman
August 4, 2008
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.
VIDEO: What do the Chinese think of Jews?
Alison Klayman
August 3, 2008
China correspondent Alison Klayman goes out to Houhai lake to ask the question: What do Beijingers think of the Jews?
Timing is everything in the Olympics — and in Darfur
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2008
However, I also live with the images of the many people I have met in Darfur and Chad who have seen their communities and lives torn apart. They are not anticipating medals; they simply want to know that the world cares and that we have the resolve to act.
Israeli women gymnasts train long and hard for Beijing games
Dina Kraft
July 31, 2008
On one side of a cavernous gym in Netanya, halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, six members of Israel\’s first Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team warm up in a circle, chatting softly in a mix of Russian and Hebrew while stretching their legs in effortless splits on the mat
Hot pot dinner bonds two very different ‘believers’ in China
Alison Klayman
July 31, 2008
Hot pot meals are popular in China and a double problem for kosher vegetarians.
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