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ETERNAL LEADERS SIXTO ENRIQUEZ RIVERA AND VIRGINIA MILLANO EVANGELISTA FABRO~RIVERA (Experimenting with Paint 3D)
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"POLAR SILK ROAD"
The #Israel Mahjong league is planning a fundraiser to help the #Alzheimer’s Association and help those suffering from the disease. https://t.co/oE2FoKPTbv
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 1, 2021
JAMES M. DORSEY: Chinese access to the Syrian Mediterranean Sea ports of Tartus and Latakia is an attractive prospect for China’s multi~billion~dollar infrastructure, telecommunications, and energy~driven initiative, which seeks to link Eurasia to the People’s Republic. It would complement Beijing’s footholds in Greece’s Piraeus and the Israeli harbors of Haifa and Ashdod, and would anchor Syria as a key point on the ancient Silk Road.
PAUL GOBLE: In mid~July, China dispatched its Snow Dragon~2 icebreaker to the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This action marks yet another step toward realizing Beijing’s longstanding plans to displace Moscow as the dominant power in the Arctic as well as to establish Chinese preeminence on that west~east maritime corridor, which hugs Russia’s northern coast (see EDM, June 12, 2019 and September 3, 2019).
All earlier visits were made by the Snow Dragon~1.
China “respects the sovereignty of Arctic nations” but wants to expand its presence and cooperation with them on what Beijing’s leaders call the “Polar Silk Road” (The Barents Observer, May 14, 2019).
NENGYE LIU: China began its first Antarctic expedition in 1983, then gradually expanded its presence in the continent and adjacent waters. So far, China has four Antarctic stations (Great Wall, Zhongshan, Taishan Summer Camp, and Kunlun/Dome A), with a fifth station being built on the Ross Sea Ice Shelf, to be completed in 2022.
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Why China believes the World needs the new Silk Roadhttps://t.co/rL7yJ6B90X pic.twitter.com/A9N5hthzJj— RT (@RT_com) September 13, 2019
Material evidence of Silk Road found in Israel https://t.co/XyIX4Bww5G via @HeritageDaily - #Archaeology News
— HeritageDaily (@HeritageDaily) January 18, 2023
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— Max Berardi (@MaxBerardi_) October 17, 2017
“Damn, you’re eating again? Didn’t you just eat?”— Noreen (@noreennavarro) October 17, 2017
First of all, I’m always hungry.
Def left the house looking like a bum.. Lets see what happens— Alexander Dominguez (@allalexdoeeee) June 23, 2017
Interview: Philippines expects to hitchhike onto China's Belt and Road wagon: Duterte https://t.co/6wTXyAoIT4 pic.twitter.com/QtqiLSEway— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) May 10, 2017
Family time. Heading to dinner. It’s raining. Full car and my frugal ass didn’t want to pay for an Uber. 😂🤣🤷🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/ZrDD56WTph— Harry Shum Jr (@HarryShumJr) October 16, 2017
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Feature: Six centuries on, Chinese of Philippine ancestry maintain Sino-Philippine bond https://t.co/ddouSMv7jH pic.twitter.com/daNVRP0R9a— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) Setyembre 15, 2017
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YES, THERE ARE CHINESE JEWS, AND YES THEY DID LIVE IN KAIFENG.: In the ninth century, Kaifeng was one of the largest cities in the world. Some 600 kilometres southwest of Beijing in East-Central China, Kaifeng boasted a population of nearly 1 million people.Located on the silk road, Jewish merchants and their families heading east from Persia arrived and settled finding acceptance of their customs and freedom from persecution. Thus started one of the most remarkable stories of a Jewish community that existed totally isolated from any outside Jewish contact.
Completely unknown to the western world, the Jews of Kaifeng maintained a synagogue, mikvah, kept kasruth and practised the rite of circumcision for nearly 1000 years.They called to meet the Song Dynasty Emperor Hsiua Tsung and presented him with gifts of fine cloth. The Emperor was delighted and honoured them by letting the Jews use the surnames of Zhao, Li, Ai, Zhang, Gao, Jin and Shi.The community prospered in Kaifeng but many times their synagogue was damaged or completely destroyed by flooding from the Yellow River. The constant rebuilding may have played an important part in their maintaining their Jewish identity and sense of community, in a country that had freely accepted them and was in danger of assimilating them.In Marco Polo's travel diary he describes his meeting Jews in China in 1286. He reported that Kublai Khan celebrated Jewish festivals along with Christian and Muslim holidays.Some 300 years later, in 1605, Ai Tien a senior of the 1000 strong Kaifeng community, decided to travel to Beijing since he had heard of a congregation that prayed to only one God. He was unaware of Christianity and presumed them to be Jews. He presented himself to their leader Father Matteo Ricci as members of the same religion. Ai Tien was thought to be a member of a long lost Christian community until their differences became apparent.
However, Father Matteo wrote to the Vatican with the news of the Jews of Kaifeng. Many missionaries were sent and there were many unsuccessful attempts to convert them. They were also keen to see their Torah. Rome believed that the coming of Jesus had been removed from European Torahs !
Amongst the Jesuit missionaries was Father Jean Domenge, who, in 1722, sent a series of drawings of Jewish life in Kaifeng back to Rome. One of these depicts Jews in front of the Ark, and can be seen in the Kaifeng restaurant in Hendon.
After another flooding the 19th century the synagogue fell into ruin. There were no more Rabbis and the community became more and more assimilated. Today if you ask to meet Jews in Kaifeng, you will meet people who "do not eat pork".
Why ?Because their families never did.The proof that they really are descended from the Jews of Kaifeng?One does not accept the other as truly Jewish.