China’s Lost Jewish Community

Washington Free Beacon writes, JERUSALEM – Yaakov Wang emerged from a ritual bath near Tel Aviv last week and was welcomed by a rabbi into Judaism. He was one of seven young men from China’s Henan Province to have completed a conversion process in Israel, according to a report in Haaretz. Wang, unlike his six compatriots, intends to study for the rabbinate and return to his native city of Kaifeng on the Yellow River. He would become the first spiritual leader in more than 200 years of an ancient, almost forgotten, Chinese Jewish community that has virtually disappeared through assimilation. According to scholars, Jewish…

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