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.
Hot pot meals are popular in China and a double problem for kosher vegetarians.
Gold medalists won\’t be the only ones climbing podiums in Beijing once the 2008 Olympic Games are under way. Isaac Shapiro of Highland Park, Ill. will be stepping up to celebrate his bar mitzvah
Jewish groups have taken lead roles in drawing attention to China\’s policies and specifically sought to spotlight the country\’s record in advance of this summer\’s Olympic Games in Beijing. Yet it appears as if China will suffer no significant international sanction when the games open Aug. 8
In an appeal issued April 30 and timed for the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, 185 Jewish leaders — mostly clergy — appealed to Jews not to attend the Beijing Olympics this summer as tourists.
With the kosher certification of more than 300 food factories in China, each producing multiple products, America\’s largest kosher-certification company, the Orthodox Union (OU), has more than doubled the number of certifications it does in China just in the past two years.
As an American citizen, I would like to see President Bush demonstrate some of the courage and resolve exemplified by the celebrity activists, using his power to try to persuade China to change its behavior. If China does not cooperate, the president should reconsider his plans to attend the Olympics.
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Their family has been there for 1000 years, eating Chinese food on Christmas and all year \’round — the Last Jews of Shan-Chai
China has been the home of Jews for thousands of years, and there are still some families there ….
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