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Chinese Capital in the Startup Nation

Will increased tech and trade cooperation with China upset Israel’s critical alliance with the U.S.?

By Sam Chester · October 26, 2018
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In Jewish-Indonesian Relations, Many Hopeful Signs

There’s no doubt that Chinese Indonesians and Jews need to be treated better by both their fellow citizens and the state, but things aren’t as grim as you may believe

By Niruban Balachandran · April 19, 2018
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Indonesians Hate the Chinese, Because They Are Jewish

How Dutch colonial officials used anti-Semitism to fuel anti-Chinese hate

By Blake Smith · April 17, 2018
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Twitter’s Theater of Radical Cruelty

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s death is the latest occasion for social media-propagated callousness and ignorant moral arrogance

By Jamie Palmer · July 25, 2017
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The World’s First Kung-Fu Holocaust Exploitation Flick!

Jackie Chan meets the Chinese Oskar Schindler in Israeli-Romanian co-production ‘Exodus to Shanghai’

By Amir Bogen · July 11, 2017
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The Loneliest Jewish Graves in the World

A thousand miles away from the nearest Jewish community, in the far reaches of northeast China, seven Members of the Tribe found their final resting place

By Edward Luttwak and Aimee Veneau · July 10, 2017
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‘I Have to Be Here’

Five young Kaifeng Jews made aliyah on Monday

By Jonathan Zalman · March 2, 2016
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Wanna Get Smart and Rich? Tap the Jews!

A murky Ponzi scheme duped Chinese citizens into believing they could gain wisdom—and money!—through the utmost purveyors of both: Jews

By Jonathan Zalman · February 5, 2016
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China’s Search for the Secrets of Jewish Success

In their quest to understand Jews better, popular Chinese authors and bloggers offer up facts and myths about everything from the Talmud to anti-Semitism

By James Ross · January 25, 2016
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China Dolls

Most of the world’s Judaica isn’t made by Jews. Much of it comes from the Far East. Should we care?

By David Zvi Kalman · December 8, 2015
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A Torah Finds a New Home—and Invigorates a Congregation—in Shanghai

Smuggled to Brazil from Germany in 1939, the scroll was donated to Kehilat Shanghai and used during Rosh Hashanah services in the former Ohel Moishe synagogue

By Rebecca Kanthor · September 17, 2015
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China Greets Israel with Panda Diplomacy

Two giant pandas may soon be living in the Haifa Zoo

By Anna Altman · December 3, 2014
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China Restores Synagogue Founded in 1909

Main Synagogue in the city of Harbin once held 450 Orthodox congregants

By Isabel Fattal · June 23, 2014
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Will Bibi’s Chinese Choo-Choo Train Save Israel and Transform the Middle East?

A bold new freight railway bypassing the Suez Canal may annoy Egypt and the United States, but that’s not the goal

By Jon Emont · June 16, 2014
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The Chinese Believe That the Jews Control America. Is That a Good Thing?

Prof. Xu Xin’s Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University seeks to establish Chinese scholarship on Jews

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore · March 27, 2014
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Some Things Really Do Warrant Comparisons to Nazis

Most Nazi analogies are hyperbolic and irresponsible. But not all of them.

By Rafael Medoff · February 21, 2014
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How China Is Behind the Nuclear Program of Iran—and Every Other Rogue State

Beijing proved masterful at enabling Pyongyang to expand its program, and did the same for Pakistan. Now it’s Tehran’s turn.

By Gordon G. Chang · January 3, 2014
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Saga of Terrorism Suit Against Bank of China Continues

Daniel Wultz’s family has some choice words for Bibi

By Adam Chandler · December 17, 2013
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Two Women from ‘Lost’ Tribes Find a Home

They tell the story of their journeys from China and Northeast India to Israel

By Rachel Silberstein · November 22, 2013
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Netanyahu Favors Chinese Interests in Terror Case, Causing Dismay All Around

Sheryl and Yekutiel Wultz say Israel promised to help them sue the Bank of China for funneling money to Palestinian terrorists. Why is Bibi backtracking?

By Sam Chester · August 20, 2013
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As Chinese-Israeli Relations Enjoy a Second Honeymoon, America Frets

The last time China and the Jewish state drew close, the United States drove them apart. Now there’s even more at stake.

By Sam Chester · June 28, 2013
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Sundown: The A.P. Gets Scooped

Plus a UN org erases Israel from its map

By Adam Chandler · May 13, 2013
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Why Netanyahu and Abbas Went to China

The media is reporting that the historic visits were about the peace process. They’re wrong.

By Sam Chester · May 13, 2013
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Daybreak: Chinese Push for Mideast Peace

Plus Benghazi hearings polarize and Syria’s lost generation

By Adam Chandler · May 9, 2013
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Why Iran Already Has the Bomb

If North Korea has the bomb, as this week’s nuclear test indicated, then for all practical purposes, so does Iran

By Lee Smith · February 14, 2013
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Daybreak: Fighting in Mali Intensifies

Plus a Syrian university suffers a major attack

By Adam Chandler · January 16, 2013
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Mo Yan’s Jewish Interpreter

The D-student translator behind the Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

By Michael Orbach · December 10, 2012
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Sinister Trend in Publishing

Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran ban books. Why are they being honored on the European book-fair circuit?

By James Kirchick · October 12, 2012
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Sundown: Turkey, Iran Dip Into Syrian Uprising

Plus Bar Refaeli wants to make a sex tape

By Adam Chandler · October 3, 2012
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Daybreak: Karate Kofi

Plus, Reform and Conservative rabbis scorned, and more in the news

By Dan Klein · June 12, 2012
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