A Mazel Tov in Shanghai
Dvir Bar-Gal
July 11, 2002
The cosmopolitan Chinese city of Shanghai has witnessed what is believed to be its first Jewish marriage ceremony in more than 50 years.
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Shanghai Seder
Miriam Widman
June 1, 2000
China\’s bustling financial center, home to about 13 million, is also a temporary home to about 200 Jews.
Selling AWACS to China
Eric Silver
April 27, 2000
Chinese President Jiang Zemin donned his black kippah and followed in Pope John Paul II\’s footsteps to the Western Wall last week, confident that the world\’s biggest atheistic state would soon receive a $250 million airborne surveillance system from Israel Aircraft Industries on schedule. Despite intense American pressure to cancel the deal, the signs are that he will receive the other three or four AWACS he also wants to buy.
Cohn in China
Jewish Journal
November 18, 1999
Arthur Cohn used the occasion of a retrospective of his works at the Shanghai International Film Festival to premiere his latest documentary, \”Children of the Night.\”
Navigational Pull
Tom Tugend
November 5, 1998
A Chinese proverb has it that if you haven\’t sailed on the Chang Jiang — the Long River — you really haven\’t been anywhere. Better known as the Yangtze River to foreigners, the world\’s third longest river flows through the heart of China from the highlands of Tibet until it empties, after a 3,900-mile journey, into the East China Sea at Shanghai.
Travel
Tom Tugend
July 2, 1998
The seder was a huge success, setting an all-time record for a Jewish holiday observance in Beijing.
Open Door Policy to China
Tom Tugend
September 25, 1997
\”Israel has 5 million inhabitants and China has 1.2 billion,\” Kaveh said during a visit to Los Angeles last week. \”However, we are both ancient civilizations, which have survived much suffering and mighty empires.\”
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