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(IsraelNN.com) For the first time, a group of seven descendants of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, China has moved to Israel.The new arrivals, who were brought here by the Shavei Israel organization, arrived at Ben-Gurion airport late Tuesday night.
The city of their birth, Kaifeng, sits on the banks of the Yellow River and was home to a flourishing Jewish community for more than a millennium.
"I am very excited to be here in the Holy Land," said Yaakov Wang, one of the new immigrants. "This is something that my ancestors dreamed about for generations, and now thank G-d I have finally made it." read more here.
(Although, I don't think this is "for the first time". I knew a smaller group that came to stay much earlier. Maybe this is the same group? I don't know.)
2 comments:
It's not the first time. Here is an article from 2008:
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Kylopod,
Thank you for the link. I remembered something like that. A friend of mine who's Chinese Jewish was asked if she could translate for them, but she didn't know so much Chinese.
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