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To: Elroy who wrote (219944)	2/21/2007 2:33:29 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Chinese Jews probably look Russian. The Harbin Jewish Community In the late nineteenth century, communities of Russian Jews settled in Harbin and Tientsin, especially at the urging of the Russian government, which aimed to construct a railway to eastern Asia and needed population centers there. The Russian government, eager to populate the cities, encouraged minorities such as Jews and Karaites to move to these cities. As the religious freedoms in Eastern Europe became more limited and as pogroms in the Pale of Settlement increased, many Jews joined these Southeast Asian communities, raising the Jewish population of Harbin to 8,000 by 1908. The Shanghai Jewish Community Shanghai, a port city in the Kiangsu province in Eastern China, opened to foreign trade in 1842. Subsequently, the city of Shanghai absorbed many of the Ashkenazi émigrés fleeing repression in Eastern Europe. Russian Jews fleeing persecution and massacres under the Tsar also emigrated and built the Ohel Moishe Synagogue in Shanghai in 1907. But the majority of the Shanghai Jewish population was Sephardim from Baghdad, Bombay, and Cairo, including the wealthy families Sassoon, Kadoorie, Hardoon, Ezra, Shamoon, and Baroukh. These families raised the Jewish population of Shanghai to approximately 700, including 400 Sephardim, 250 Europeans, and 50 Americans. Most of them were merchants, although some were in medicine, teaching, and diplomatic service. Jews fleeing the Russian Revolution of 1917 further increased the Jewish population and raised awareness for the Zionist movement. Then in the 1930s and 40s, Jewish refugees from Germany and German-occupied areas fleeing the Nazi regime increased the Shanghai population to approximately 25,000. Lubavitch Hasidim, as well as remnants of the Mir and Slobodka Lithuanian yeshivot (Jewish religious schools), found refuge in Shanghai, which became a frequent destination because the free port did not require visas. jewishvirtuallibrary.org

To: Elroy who wrote (219944)	2/21/2007 2:42:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The reason she can never become "truly Japanese" in the minds of most Japanese is because she is white. Not true at all. Substitute Chinese or Korean, and the answer will be the same. Of course it is. If Jews accept converts, it has to be. What else happens in conversion? Your religion changes. You declare a new faith, and learn its basic tenets. Ethnicity is not so easy to change. And since the Jews have been wandering around the planet for thousands of years, you can bet your life their have been plenty of conversions, adoptions, and fornicating with the non-Jewish locals, which all leads to the opposite of an "ethnic group". Muddle-headed again. Just because a foreigner is accepted but not considered the same as a native, doesn't mean that the foreigner's children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren will also be considered foreigners forever. The converts children will be born and raised Jews.