Has the Jewish Community Failed “Never Again” for the Uyghurs?

By Leo Brown May 12, 2021

Despite Jewish organizations rallying together against the genocide, the movement has not gained the same traction within the broader American Jewish community.

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Cobbling Together a Jewish Life in China, Just Like My Grandparents

By Izzy Ullmann August 21, 2017

Originally published in J. Weekly. Being isolated from community tests one’s commitment to the values and practices that normally bring that community together. This is what the experience of being a Jew in China has taught me. I grew up in the warm embraces of Judaism, spending many hours at Yavneh, a Jewish day school in…

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Wandering Jew: Shabbas in Beijing

By peil August 28, 2009

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory, had a special fondness for French Jews,” Rabbi Shimon Freundlich said. He raised his glass, nodding toward a cluster of guests seated in the crowded room, and took a healthy swig. It was a recent Friday night at the Chabad Lubavitch House in Beijing, a villa on a tucked-away…

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