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Wherever Jews wander, Chabad welcomes them home - opinion

By feeding travelers, opening its doors, and accepting Jews wherever they stand, Chabad has built one of the world’s most successful Jewish outreach movements.

CHABAD VOLUNTEERS assist World Series fans in putting on tefillin, 2016.
Adding Hebrew letters to a dreidel at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.

Jewish Shanghai: From refuge to renewal, exploring the living history of a city’s Jewish legacy

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From the entire Middle East, this city was chosen among the 50 best in the world

 An illustrative photo of the Iranian and Chinese flags.

China eyes Iran conflict while pushing military modernization - analysis


China COVID jitters flare up as parts of Shanghai resume lockdown

Shanghai had recently eased heavy COVID curbs, but China has stuck with a "dynamic zero-COVID" policy aimed at shutting down transmission chains as soon as possible.

 A resident gets tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a sealed area, after the lockdown placed to curb the COVID-19 outbreak was lifted in Shanghai, China June 8, 2022.

Shanghai lockdown stalls launch of China's most advanced aircraft carrier

Following a lockdown, shipyards in Shanghai are now running out of workers as Chinese authorities have ordered all Shanghai state-owned enterprises to send employees to fight COVID-19.

 COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai

Meretz MK to become Israel’s highest ranking female Arab diplomat

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi will be the first Israeli Arab woman to hold such a senior diplomatic position.

 MK GHAIDA RINAWIE ZOABI attends a Special  Committee on Arab Society Affairs meeting, in the  Knesset in June

From Nazi Germany to Shanghai to California, a story of Jewish success

Heinz Meyer fled Nazi Germany, and struggled his way to success through China, before establishing himself in the United States.

Henry (Heinz) Meyer outside Hamburger Henry, where he made gourmet hamburgers in the 1980s

Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat

The city of Langfang in Hebei said its 4.9 million residents will be put under home quarantine for seven days and be subject to mass COVID-19 testing.

People line up for a second round of citywide nucleic acid testing at a residential compound in Shijiazhuang

In China, a Donald Trump wax statue maker laments coronavirus impact

Located in the outskirts of Shanghai, about an hour's drive from the city centre, its exhibition hall also doubles as makeshift museum, where guests can pose next to replicas of North Korean leader K

A technician demonstrates for the camera the assembling of a wax figure of US President Donald Trump at a wax museum of Shanghai Maiyi Arts, Shanghai, China, August 21, 2020

GIA opens gem lab at Israel Diamond Exchange

Shanghai agrees to host Israeli exhibition in July

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Last Chabad yeshiva student to survive Holocaust via Shanghai dies at 100

Landa died in his sleep on February 15 at the age of 100.

Jewish refugees are seen in housing in the Hongkou District of Shanghai, April 1946

University of Haifa unveils joint campus in Shanghai

“This is a remarkable moment of combining forces between the great Chinese nation and the start-up nation of Israel," said Education Minister Naftali Bennett.

The inauguration ceremony at the Joint Translational Science and Technology Research Institute

The rich history of Jewish life in China

THE MAIN synagogue in Harbin, a refuge for many Jews who fled the Former Soviet Union