Takes a lot of courage for these young people to leave their homes and come to Israel. I wish them lots of luck; we need all the good people here that we can get.
I find this very touching! I believe that any one who wishes to become a part of our religion is more than welcome. It just shows how powerful and influencial the religion is and how it can touch people of other ethnicities. Its pretty cool!! ^-^
Torah rabah for posting this beautiful documentary about the return of the Remnant of 12 Tribes of Yisrael back home to Eretz Yisrael. The ending is truly very moving.
I think this is a terrific video. I'm not Jewish but I really admire those in Israel who open their arms to those who want to be Jewish in their land of Israel.
Congratulations Shavei Israel, this is a wonderful struggle you managed despite all the criticisms and bareers of the immigration process. These people are enhancing the diversity and rainbow of the people of Israel. This does not exclude other tribes to do as well.
I`m touched to tears....almost. Very impressed as to how Hashem has His strong hand on us all... No matter what other Jews say about the Chinese Jews or Black Jews or French Canadian Jews. We are ALL coming Home to greet Messiah Yeshua who is on His way back to Yerushalayim! This time, as a conquering King...of the Universe. He will destroy Israel's enemies once and for all.
My last EX BF was American Born Chinese. Chinese People are easy to absorb into other cultures because they contribute alot to the people around them. Also many Jews leave Europe for Shanghai because there is no anti semitism in China. But I am proud that Chinese people are becoming Jews. Your people will strengthen us because Chinese people are a great people and greatness have no Ethnicity or Skin Color.
Escape from where? No religion is an escape. If you want to go somewhere else to study judaism try with Philippines, Japan or somwhere else... It's not necesary that you go to Israel.
Who are "we"? Jewish people? jewish people in Indonesia? Indonesian people? Is important if I am or I am not? No religion is an escape except if you are a thief, or a criminal, or a bad person and you want someone forgives you and you want to redime yourself doing good actions.
Congrats! But then you are jewish? or you want to become jewish? I still don't undestand why you want to escape from there... or from where to where you want to escape... Is it because the government of Indonesia politics?
As a Chinese, I say we respect Israel a lot, almost all Chinese do. Not because anything else, but because you Israelis are real tough!!! Not everyone can beat an alliance of 4 to 6 nations single handedly, not to mention all those nations are much bigger than you. You are such a tiny country, but your achievements in warfare, economy, wealth, science and culture parallel even some of the largest empires on earth. BTW, WTF is a CHINESE JEW?!?!?!?!?!?!
I myself am Korean Chrisrian and having found out there's Chinese origin of jews in the mainland China is just unbelievable but at the same time it shows how Israel (in this context, Jews) accepts everyone regardless of gender nationality ethnicity... wow homecoming aliyah
I read about Kafeng Jewish, but from what I read they had stopped recognizing themselves as Jewish a long time ago and became a part of Chinese people. Anyway, nobody is going to stop them if they want to go back, just like nobody stopped them when they came to China.
@Juggernaut788 Jews have been living in China since at least the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The Kaifeng Jewish community first arose sometime during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). There is plenty of information on this. See 1) "Survival of the Chinese Jews" by Donald Leslie 2) "Mandarins, Jews and Missionaries" by Michael Pollak 3) "Jews in Old China" by Sidney Shapiro 4) "The Jews of Kaifeng" by Xu Xin , etc. These are only a few of the books and papers on the subject. Interesting reading.
I htink it's wonderful that Kaifeng's Jews are making Aliyah, but I wonder ifit's right to "convert" them to Ashkenazi customs? They're being taught to eat, sing, dance and say Hashem's praises according to "modern orthodox" which is Ashkenazi-centered. The Kaifeng Jews are thought to have been Persian in origin, but they're not being taught Persian-Jewish customs. Being a Jew doesn't mean dressing in black and eating farfel.
It doesn 't matter how you look like, but your heart is more important. Jewish and Chinese people are the greatest people all over the world. I love the Jews because they are the chosen people of God, and their descendants are all over the world, and in many races.
Wow, It is realy amazing, The jews people is in all the bloods and races in the world. Thinking in my grandmother was from China and decided to live in Peru with her Father and brothers.
May G-d Bless them....i feel so happy to be jewish when i see this...Even if they are of a different area in the world....I'm happy they study torah.....bring one to study...and hashem will count you as a hundred....amen...bring them all the more the merrier...amen
These people probably score off the charts on an IQ test. Sadly, all men weren't created equally, intellectually speaking. East Asian Jews, damn, this video is awesome!
This is really a beautiful story and I think it has the potential for something more. Unfortunately, based on Zionist racial hatred, I fear these people will have a difficult time being accepted and assimilated. I must add that not all Jews are racist or Zionist and I believe those whose belief is Orthodox do have a very strong spiritual character and great compassion for others deep down. With that aside, this is still a beautiful story. Thanks for posting.
johnson spear sure, the rest religions are better and saints, yeeeeah, suuure. You are so ignorant, you are generalizating people. Murders are people, not religions or culture. If a government is bad the people is bad? No, just the government and the people who chose and support his actions. If your words define who is parasite, then catholics are, because kill a whole continent when came from Europe. So, don't be such an ignorant, please.
I saw a doc. about them, they are not pure Jews. They are descendants of mixed Jews and Chinese. BUT they look more Asian and grew up as Chinese. I guess the temptation to be God's chosen people are just hard to resist.
I am a Jew from the Arab country - Iran, now lives in Israel. The Khazars are descendants of the 10 lost tribes, and also the European Jews are a minority of the Jewish people. Today most of the Jews are from Arab countries, but the Jews that predominate in the country are the Jews of Europe. Jews = the tribe of Judah, of if you know that the Pathans are from the tribe of Efraim? Soon the time will come and all of Israel will find, not only the Jews, and we will be close to 50 million!
@boliusb, The diaspora is responsible for all this confusion. I agree with you, the Jewish religion has preserved an ethnicity and a way of life. Rarely foreigners have converted to Judaism and Jews were isolated in many places especially Europe. There is no surprise that without a distinct country, the Jews are confused to be part of the local populations to where their ancestors were exiled. Thanks for your fervent enlightenment.
Notice that this video has no views in China. Very interesting. Or not. Either way I'm very happy for them to be in a place where they can actually show some religious fervor if they so choose.
i think you will find that judaism is the parent not the cousin of christianity. and can you give one example when many have died under judaism in the last two thousand years please?
@smukase dude, the jews that u see in antwerp are orthodox jews (haredim in hebrew=fearful people). like all 3 monotheist religions there are very religious people, moderate religious and even atheists. anyway, it's nice to hear a muslim man like u, who is willing to learn about jews without expressing any hatred. salaam dude, peace on earth inshaalla
The descendants of Israel were scattered far and wide and now they are returning. I wonder if they ever do DNA testing to see if these people are Jewish or if it is possible?
I was born and raised as a very orthodox African American Jew. I'm just curious as to what does Jewish blood and non Jewish blood look like and how do you distinguish the difference. I always thought blood had three categories A, B and O.
Why do you need a DNA test? When people go out from Egipt they had different DNA, when they go out from Israel had more different DNA, when they go out from the other countries they were go (because were in war or something) they had different even more different DNA. So jewish can have whatever DNA, what's your problem? In fact, do you know jewish people have at least 3 diferent kinds of genotype? So if their family mixed their DNA with other since a lot of years, they can have even a rare DNA no seen before. Do you are a genetist or something? Do you have test to say who is jewish? Do you decide who is jewish because you found a gene that says how many "jew" or "muslim" or "evangelist" are you? Do you have a quimic reaccion that say who is jewish like a test pregnancy? Please, don't be such a Mengele.
@austpers Like I said, Arabs or who you call "Palestinians' are treated like human beings. They are in the Israeli government. The ones in Gaza and West Bank, are unfortunately not, as they pose a threat to the Israeli civilians and mainly Jews. But you have to remember 20% of Israel are Arab and have full rights. In West Bank and Gaza they have their own governments and get lots of aid from Israel.
Chinese should make friend with Israel rather than the dangerous muslim... Look how Israelis fought the entire Arab world, for the land for the soil given by their GOD, I sincerely respect them
@yeguipanghuang FYI... Chinese is a nationally while Judaism is a religion. You can be both 100% chinese and 100% Jewish. Nobody would ever say they are half American and half Catholic.
If these Chinese went to in Italy, they would still be Chinese. If these Chinese went to live in African, they would still be Chinese. If these Chinese went to live in Mexico, they would still be Chinese.
Just because their English needs a little work gives no ground to call them stupid. Jews are from all over the world, as Hashem (blessed be he) declared.
Kaifeng-Chinese Jews are very close to ethnic Chinese or Chinese speaking muslims neighbors. Many of them integrate into muslim community, the rest are extremely hard to be distinguished from ethnic-Chinese. Local people used to call some Chinese Jews as "Blue Cap Muslims". Chinese Jews mension their ancestors as "Israeli", not "Jew". Nowdays Chinese Jews are either classified as "Han" (Ethnic-Chinese) or "Hui"(Chinese Speaking Muslim) depends on whether they practice islam
i knew one of my friends was a jew from kaifeng, a chinese. of course back then we laughed at him even he was so seriously making the claim. that was late 70s and early 80s.. we were kids and didn't know better. honestly back then, the word jew didn't mean anything to us...
@austpers I see you're also from Iran. Did you know that prior to 1979, before the Islamic revolution hit Iran, Israel and Iran had very close ties? Persians and Jews were like brothers, going back to biblical times. In fact, a lot of the Persians who escape Iran, are friends with Jewish people and Israelis, today and they are not proud of what their government has become. A lot of them even reside in Israel now. Amazing what Islam has done to Iran. I hope you guys will be free one day.
@jervill1 Many scholars believe that Sinim actually refers to a city in Egypt. I think the connection to China was made because of "Sin," the Arabic term for China.
While I'm glad they're reconnecting with their Judaism, I would prefer that they return to Kaifeng to rebuild their community there. Something that existed since the 8th century shouldn't be allowed to go quietly into the night.
@grapisavillain My parents are both Jewish and we have a strong Jewish heritage. They both do not speak Hebrew or Yiddish and they don't have Jewish names yet they have a strong faith. Do you not recognize us as Jews?
Anyone born to a Jewish woman is a Jew.. I am a Jew and if I married a Chinese man my child will look mixed Chinese but under my guidance grow up to be a Jew..thus if my children marries into another mixed raced Chinese Jewish family my third generation will look much like a Chinese yet be a Jew
If they want to go to Israel, that's fine, but I wish that at least some of them would stay in Kaifeng. It would be great to see a thriving community in the city again after all these decades. There are such amazing and unique Jewish communities all around the world. Kaifeng, Cochin, Ethiopia, Iraq, etc, and I would hate to see these people all leave for Israel and be assimilated into mainstream Israeli culture.
@austpers You really have to understand that before those walls were built, the people living largely in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, were comitting terrorist acts like suicide bombings and the world stood silent when all these things happened.
This reminds me of my childhood...In my mother's home, we grew up Kosher. But Mom worried that her very religious mother, our Bubbe, might find out that we sometimes brought in Chinese food-traif. Mom taught my brothers and me that won ton were called "kreplach" and pork spare ribs were beef. Perhaps I was related in some way to these Aliot
@canananpeople , read this Ezekiel 36:24-28 (New King James Version) 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
They quite possibly have Jewish ancestry. It seems most of them have high nose bridge; a feature less common among Han Chinese. Anyways, congratulations for their rediscovery of their ethnic roots and wishes for their success and prosperity!
Some, yet most are in israel. I just went this summer, and they even have memorials for the lives lost crossing from ethiopia to i believe sudan where they had slim opportunity to leave africa to get to israel. I actually met an ethiopian israeli IDF woman on my trip
@klar778, the jews are an ethnic group which share a common religion. This means that the relationship between jews goes beyond just sharing a religion. Jews also share a common ancestry.
@williameva There are 56 ethnicities in China including the majority Han. And in each ethnicity there seems to be more subdivision incl the Hans too of course. The borders ancient China shared with so many other countries as well as because of the silk route from Xian to Rome, it also means different peoples mingled and intermarried in those days. FYI, among the minority ethnicities who are "Chinese" in China are Russians,Koreans,Uighurs,etc. Most modern chn I daresay are not pure Han anymore.
@austpers Actually, this is not true. Egypt is not a collaborator. If anything, the people living in Gaza are pons for Egypt and the people living in the West Bank are pons for Jordan. Yassir Arafat was born where? Egypt.
Takes a lot of courage for these young people to leave their homes and come to Israel. I wish them lots of luck; we need all the good people here that we can get.
all jews mixed with locals wherever they went, they seem wonderful ppl, wish them luck in Israel.
I'm proud I'm jewish and even more proud that i live in israel.
G-d bless all the religions over the world
Only Jews would welcome people like this. a truly unique people
And what would you mean by that?
ha ha ha ha you are truly a unique idiot lmfaooo00!!
Great question
THEY WOULD WELCOME THE CHINES HAPILY NOT AFRICAN JEWS COZ CHINESE ARE INTELLIGENT PPL LIKE THE ISRAELITE THEMSELVES
lol thats rude but ...
Welcome My Chinese Brothers and Sisters! Shalom!
May peace come to Israel, China & all over the world.
I find this very touching! I believe that any one who wishes to become a part of our religion is more than welcome.
It just shows how powerful and influencial the religion is and how it can touch people of other ethnicities.
Its pretty cool!! ^-^
Torah rabah for posting this beautiful documentary about the return of the Remnant of 12 Tribes of Yisrael back home to Eretz Yisrael. The ending is truly very moving.
I think this is a terrific video. I'm not Jewish but I really admire those in Israel who open their arms to those who want to be Jewish in their land of Israel.
Congratulations Shavei Israel, this is a wonderful struggle you managed despite all the criticisms and bareers of the immigration process. These people are enhancing the diversity and rainbow of the people of Israel. This does not exclude other tribes to do as well.
I`m touched to tears....almost.
Very impressed as to how Hashem has His strong hand on us all...
No matter what other Jews say about the Chinese Jews or Black Jews
or French Canadian Jews. We are ALL coming Home to greet Messiah
Yeshua who is on His way back to Yerushalayim!
This time, as a conquering King...of the Universe.
He will destroy Israel's enemies once and for all.
My last EX BF was American Born Chinese. Chinese People are easy to absorb into other cultures because they contribute alot to the people around them. Also many Jews leave Europe for Shanghai because there is no anti semitism in China. But I am proud that Chinese people are becoming Jews. Your people will strengthen us because Chinese people are a great people and greatness have no Ethnicity or Skin Color.
everyday I always think that I'm a Jews.. even now I live in Indonesia. Just wait a chance to escape from here..
Escape from where? No religion is an escape. If you want to go somewhere else to study judaism try with Philippines, Japan or somwhere else... It's not necesary that you go to Israel.
Yumi V, are you a Jews ?? you dont understand about how we feel..
Who are "we"? Jewish people? jewish people in Indonesia? Indonesian people?
Is important if I am or I am not? No religion is an escape except if you are a thief, or a criminal, or a bad person and you want someone forgives you and you want to redime yourself doing good actions.
just going to visit North Sulawesi and find out our people and how we do Jews activities..we proud as Jews..
Congrats! But then you are jewish? or you want to become jewish?
I still don't undestand why you want to escape from there... or from where to where you want to escape... Is it because the government of Indonesia politics?
With inter marriage eastern jews are not going to look semitic anymore. That's natural & to be expected. Glad to see that their aliyah is accepted.
As a Chinese, I say we respect Israel a lot, almost all Chinese do. Not because anything else, but because you Israelis are real tough!!! Not everyone can beat an alliance of 4 to 6 nations single handedly, not to mention all those nations are much bigger than you. You are such a tiny country, but your achievements in warfare, economy, wealth, science and culture parallel even some of the largest empires on earth.
BTW, WTF is a CHINESE JEW?!?!?!?!?!?!
a chinese jew is a jewish person living in china...
+ejay11000 So they are Chinese or Jews?
+David Liu Jews lol
+Dot Merah No
这么跪舔犹太人干嘛，中东战争能赢背后有美国撑着的利益，现在你让它单挑阿盟国家看看
I myself am Korean Chrisrian and having found out there's Chinese origin of jews in the mainland China is just unbelievable but at the same time it shows how Israel (in this context, Jews) accepts everyone regardless of gender nationality ethnicity... wow homecoming aliyah
Very, very interesting. God bless Israel! God bless America!
I read about Kafeng Jewish, but from what I read they had stopped recognizing themselves as Jewish a long time ago and became a part of Chinese people. Anyway, nobody is going to stop them if they want to go back, just like nobody stopped them when they came to China.
@Juggernaut788
Jews have been living in China since at least the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The Kaifeng Jewish community first arose sometime during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). There is plenty of information on this. See 1) "Survival of the Chinese Jews" by Donald Leslie 2) "Mandarins, Jews and Missionaries" by Michael Pollak 3) "Jews in Old China" by Sidney Shapiro 4) "The Jews of Kaifeng" by Xu Xin , etc. These are only a few of the books and papers on the subject. Interesting reading.
I htink it's wonderful that Kaifeng's Jews are making Aliyah, but I wonder ifit's right to "convert" them to Ashkenazi customs? They're being taught to eat, sing, dance and say Hashem's praises according to "modern orthodox" which is Ashkenazi-centered. The Kaifeng Jews are thought to have been Persian in origin, but they're not being taught Persian-Jewish customs.
Being a Jew doesn't mean dressing in black and eating farfel.
I love these chienese guys, they are Jewish,Muslim or Christian or Buddhist, I find them fascinating..
It doesn 't matter how you look like, but your heart is more important. Jewish and Chinese people are the greatest people all over the world. I love the Jews because they are the chosen people of God, and their descendants are all over the world, and in many races.
Something too amazing to imagine!
Praise God! That's all I could say.
Bizarre in some respects but also astonishing. Good luck and a happy future to them all.
Chinese and Jewish people can do something big together....
Boski Ateista u junk.
***** HUH?
+leonhang Kim is supported by Iran, not by jews.
I agree, and I hope so.
+Jing Sun Yep, as long as China as a good economy, and lots of lives to send in wars instead of jews you can expect them to be great "friends".
Wow, It is realy amazing, The jews people is in all the bloods and races in the world. Thinking in my grandmother was from China and decided to live in Peru with her Father and brothers.
May G-d Bless them....i feel so happy to be jewish when i see this...Even if they are of a different area in the world....I'm happy they study torah.....bring one to study...and hashem will count you as a hundred....amen...bring them all the more the merrier...amen
These people probably score off the charts on an IQ test. Sadly, all men weren't created equally, intellectually speaking. East Asian Jews, damn, this video is awesome!
Brought tears to my eyes.
Shalom and hope you open a Chinese restaurant in my city :) until now, we have only Polish, Arabic and Russian food, LOL.
I think this is wonderful. welcome home you guys!
This is really a beautiful story and I think it has the potential for something more. Unfortunately, based on Zionist racial hatred, I fear these people will have a difficult time being accepted and assimilated. I must add that not all Jews are racist or Zionist and I believe those whose belief is Orthodox do have a very strong spiritual character and great compassion for others deep down. With that aside, this is still a beautiful story. Thanks for posting.
כל הכבוד לשבי ישראל!! אנשים צדיקים זה נושא שמעניין אותי ופשוט תמיד אני נרגשת לראות איך הם נמצאים שם .. ישר כוח!!!
chinese jews exist ppl Israel is scattered around the world from blacks, reds, yellows, whites thats why Israel is chosen by god
lol
johnson spear sure, the rest religions are better and saints, yeeeeah, suuure. You are so ignorant, you are generalizating people. Murders are people, not religions or culture. If a government is bad the people is bad? No, just the government and the people who chose and support his actions. If your words define who is parasite, then catholics are, because kill a whole continent when came from Europe. So, don't be such an ignorant, please.
+The native Probably M&M's is the favorite sweets from God too, you know.. red, yellow, blue...
I saw a doc. about them, they are not pure Jews. They are descendants of mixed Jews and Chinese. BUT they look more Asian and grew up as Chinese. I guess the temptation to be God's chosen people are just hard to resist.
this documentary is amazing!!!
I am a Jew from the Arab country - Iran, now lives in Israel.
The Khazars are descendants of the 10 lost tribes, and also the European Jews are a minority of the Jewish people.
Today most of the Jews are from Arab countries, but the Jews that predominate in the country are the Jews of Europe.
Jews = the tribe of Judah, of if you know that the Pathans are from the tribe of Efraim?
Soon the time will come and all of Israel will find, not only the Jews, and we will be close to 50 million!
Wo ai ni zhong guo. Welcome home brothers!!
That's the best logo for israel... well done. I'm going to past this everywhere... Good Job Bro.
This should be expanded in length - maybe to a feature or have at least a follow up.
so inspiring, i see the ingathering right here! but in tiny baby steps, slow and steady or fast and furious, just get back to your land!!
"WOW" this is really awesome!!!!!
the Chinese just want to leave china
lol
You are so hurt to them.
yt ofso Think about that if Israel is a developing country, will they still want to go back to Israel and study Jewish culture?
@austpers Actually let me correct myself. Some of the people living in West Bank and Gaza DO have Israeli citizenship.
Growing up, I was very frugal since I had little money. My Wasp friends called me a Jew. Is this the same?
@boliusb, The diaspora is responsible for all this confusion. I agree with you, the Jewish religion has preserved an ethnicity and a way of life. Rarely foreigners have converted to Judaism and Jews were isolated in many places especially Europe. There is no surprise that without a distinct country, the Jews are confused to be part of the local populations to where their ancestors were exiled. Thanks for your fervent enlightenment.
@brabon1 Your keyboard seems to be broken. Perhaps you were hitting your head on it too much.
"because we go home"
So, whats china?
Notice that this video has no views in China.
Very interesting. Or not. Either way I'm very happy for them to be in a place where they can actually show some religious fervor if they so choose.
i think you will find that judaism is the parent not the cousin of christianity. and can you give one example when many have died under judaism in the last two thousand years please?
@smukase
dude, the jews that u see in antwerp are orthodox jews (haredim in hebrew=fearful people). like all 3 monotheist religions there are very religious people, moderate religious and even atheists.
anyway, it's nice to hear a muslim man like u, who is willing to learn about jews without expressing any hatred.
salaam dude, peace on earth inshaalla
The descendants of Israel were scattered far and wide and now they are returning. I wonder if they ever do DNA testing to see if these people are Jewish or if it is possible?
They are Chinese by race, just look at them.
no need for that. you can convert be jewish! and then come to tel aviv!! למה לא בכייף?
I was born and raised as a very orthodox African American Jew. I'm just curious as to what does Jewish blood and non Jewish blood look like and how do you distinguish the difference. I always thought blood had three categories A, B and O.
Excuse me I meant to type DNA not blood.
Why do you need a DNA test? When people go out from Egipt they had different DNA, when they go out from Israel had more different DNA, when they go out from the other countries they were go (because were in war or something) they had different even more different DNA. So jewish can have whatever DNA, what's your problem?
In fact, do you know jewish people have at least 3 diferent kinds of genotype? So if their family mixed their DNA with other since a lot of years, they can have even a rare DNA no seen before.
Do you are a genetist or something? Do you have test to say who is jewish? Do you decide who is jewish because you found a gene that says how many "jew" or "muslim" or "evangelist" are you? Do you have a quimic reaccion that say who is jewish like a test pregnancy? Please, don't be such a Mengele.
I am officially confused.
they are so cute!!! its so excited tosee jewish every where welcome home!!!
@austpers Like I said, Arabs or who you call "Palestinians' are treated like human beings. They are in the Israeli government. The ones in Gaza and West Bank, are unfortunately not, as they pose a threat to the Israeli civilians and mainly Jews. But you have to remember 20% of Israel are Arab and have full rights. In West Bank and Gaza they have their own governments and get lots of aid from Israel.
Chinese should make friend with Israel rather than the dangerous muslim...
Look how Israelis fought the entire Arab world, for the land for the soil given by their GOD,
I sincerely respect them
@yeguipanghuang FYI... Chinese is a nationally while Judaism is a religion. You can be both 100% chinese and 100% Jewish. Nobody would ever say they are half American and half Catholic.
never heard of it.
is that near Tibet?
Welcome home
There is nothing surprising about Chinese Jews appearing just as there is nothing surprising about Chinese Muslims due to the Silk Road.
did you not read the title? keifang jews are descendents of hebrews who went to china over 1500 years ago.
If these Chinese went to in Italy, they would still be Chinese.
If these Chinese went to live in African, they would still be Chinese.
If these Chinese went to live in Mexico, they would still be Chinese.
David Hdoni They ARE Chinese... Chinese Jews, not Chinese Buddhists nor Chinese Taoists
Just because their English needs a little work gives no ground to call them stupid. Jews are from all over the world, as Hashem (blessed be he) declared.
is there any japanese jews?
I father used to talk to me about Jewish. Before I thought he was 100% Chinese.
Welcome Home to Israel, brothers and sisters!
amazing , He ( God ) has truly gathered all of Israel back to its Land !
Kaifeng-Chinese Jews are very close to ethnic Chinese or Chinese speaking muslims neighbors. Many of them integrate into muslim community, the rest are extremely hard to be distinguished from ethnic-Chinese. Local people used to call some Chinese Jews as "Blue Cap Muslims".
Chinese Jews mension their ancestors as "Israeli", not "Jew".
Nowdays Chinese Jews are either classified as "Han" (Ethnic-Chinese) or "Hui"(Chinese Speaking Muslim) depends on whether they practice islam
i knew one of my friends was a jew from kaifeng, a chinese. of course back then we laughed at him even he was so seriously making the claim. that was late 70s and early 80s..
we were kids and didn't know better. honestly back then, the word jew didn't mean anything to us...
ISRAEL CHINA BROTHERHOOD I AM CHINESE JEW DESCENDANT!
Why you in Malaysia?
David Liu Because I moved there. I am Chinese Jew, with partly Korean descent.
Korean Chinese Should we treat you Chinese, or Jew?
David Liu Both
Korean Chinese No, you cannt be both, like you cannot have two father.
@austpers I see you're also from Iran. Did you know that prior to 1979, before the Islamic revolution hit Iran, Israel and Iran had very close ties? Persians and Jews were like brothers, going back to biblical times. In fact, a lot of the Persians who escape Iran, are friends with Jewish people and Israelis, today and they are not proud of what their government has become. A lot of them even reside in Israel now. Amazing what Islam has done to Iran. I hope you guys will be free one day.
man that cool...
i didn't knew there is Chinese Jews...
welcome to Israel and i wish to you good luck in everything you will do.
@brabon1 Which bible is this you've read? This still doesn't make "Jewish" a nationality.
As a real Zionist i have to say to those chinese jews: welcome home brothers
@jervill1
Many scholars believe that Sinim actually refers to a city in Egypt. I think the connection to China was made because of "Sin," the Arabic term for China.
I asked before, which one of the twelve tribes of israel do these guys come from?
please enlighten me from your book
i think its cool how Israel has jews who are from the whole world
Good luck in our small country, your new home :)
There are Chinese Muslims too. So what?
While I'm glad they're reconnecting with their Judaism, I would prefer that they return to Kaifeng to rebuild their community there. Something that existed since the 8th century shouldn't be allowed to go quietly into the night.
welcome brothers!
@grapisavillain My parents are both Jewish and we have a strong Jewish heritage. They both do not speak Hebrew or Yiddish and they don't have Jewish names yet they have a strong faith. Do you not recognize us as Jews?
THIS MAKES ME HAPPY!
Anyone born to a Jewish woman is a Jew.. I am a Jew and if I married a Chinese man my child will look mixed Chinese but under my guidance grow up to be a Jew..thus if my children marries into another mixed raced Chinese Jewish family my third generation will look much like a Chinese yet be a Jew
Biblically it was through the father though.. You are through your seed.
If they want to go to Israel, that's fine, but I wish that at least some of them would stay in Kaifeng. It would be great to see a thriving community in the city again after all these decades. There are such amazing and unique Jewish communities all around the world. Kaifeng, Cochin, Ethiopia, Iraq, etc, and I would hate to see these people all leave for Israel and be assimilated into mainstream Israeli culture.
i am really moved by this moment of returning home
@austpers You really have to understand that before those walls were built, the people living largely in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, were comitting terrorist acts like suicide bombings and the world stood silent when all these things happened.
Silk Road emmigration.... We got Chinese Muslims, Jews, etc....They go wherever there's trading.
Isaiah 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.
so happy for them! im also want to go back to Israel:)
This reminds me of my childhood...In my mother's home, we grew up Kosher. But Mom worried that her very religious mother, our Bubbe, might find out that we sometimes brought in Chinese food-traif. Mom taught my brothers and me that won ton were called "kreplach" and pork spare ribs were beef. Perhaps I was related in some way to these Aliot
Interesting Yellow and Jew mixed
同志们！胜利会师啦! victory for meeting up our units (in Israel) sadly, they still use communist language from Soviet Union.
@canananpeople , read this
Ezekiel 36:24-28 (New King James Version)
24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
Personally I think this is pretty cool.
They quite possibly have Jewish ancestry. It seems most of them have high nose bridge; a feature less common among Han Chinese.
Anyways, congratulations for their rediscovery of their ethnic roots and wishes for their success and prosperity!
I wonder if they'd be welcomed as warmly if they were Ethiopian or Eritrean Jews?
+chuck kaczmarsky If they were trusted by solomon to hold the ark then id assume they would be accepted
and are they still there?
Some, yet most are in israel. I just went this summer, and they even have memorials for the lives lost crossing from ethiopia to i believe sudan where they had slim opportunity to leave africa to get to israel. I actually met an ethiopian israeli IDF woman on my trip
Check documentary how jews extrated them from muslim countrt
Ethiopian and Eritrean jews are welcomed and accepted . stop listening to cnn and russia today .
@klar778, the jews are an ethnic group which share a common religion. This means that the relationship between jews goes beyond just sharing a religion. Jews also share a common ancestry.
@williameva There are 56 ethnicities in China including the majority Han. And in each ethnicity there seems to be more subdivision incl the Hans too of course. The borders ancient China shared with so many other countries as well as because of the silk route from Xian to Rome, it also means different peoples mingled and intermarried in those days. FYI, among the minority ethnicities who are "Chinese" in China are Russians,Koreans,Uighurs,etc. Most modern chn I daresay are not pure Han anymore.
@austpers Actually, this is not true. Egypt is not a collaborator. If anything, the people living in Gaza are pons for Egypt and the people living in the West Bank are pons for Jordan. Yassir Arafat was born where? Egypt.