Kaifeng: Bangsa cina ugama yahudi

Jarang kita dengar ada bangsa cina yang mengamalkan ugama yahudi. Cina yahudi berasal dari
Kaifeng dalam wilayah Henan, China.

Berlegar kabar angin didalam forum konon nyerr China akan diperintah oleh seorang cina yang berbangsa yahudi. Tak tahu lah..kita tunggu..

Di Malaysia pun mungkin ada melayu beragama yahudi..mustahil??

Takkk...Malaysia boleh!


KaiFeng Jew


Kaifeng, Jerusalem, a full-length documentary filmed over six years in Israel and China, follows the descendants of the Chinese Jewish community in the ancient capital city of Kaifeng on their quest to recover their Jewish heritage. It examines the community’s odd political situation, in which both China and Israel—each for its own reasons—refuse to recognize them as Jews.

The film focuses on the Jin family of Kaifeng—Shlomo, Dina, and their daughter Shalva—who managed to leave China for Israel in 1999, with the assistance of a Christian Zionist group. With no official status in Israel, but with dogged persistence and a unique brand of Jewish identity, the Jins try to communicate their extraordinary circumstances to the Israeli establishment and to educate the authorities as well as the public. The family endures many trials and tribulations. At one point Shlomo is even picked up by the police as an illegal migrant worker.

Insisting that they are already proper Jews, the family at first refuses to convert. Later, however, they go through the entire process, accepting that Kaifeng Jews must retrieve their Jewish background if they want to rejoin the Jewish people and make aliya. As Shlomo becomes more devout, he clings on to his original mission—to open the gates for the rest of the Kaifeng Jews.

In 2005, after completing the official conversion process, Shlomo and Dina visit Kaifeng, where he fulfills his dream of teaching other Jewish descendants about Judaism. While that dream is fulfilled, the prospects that the rest of the Descendants will be able to return to Judaism and Israel remains bleak.

This truly international story is told using interviews and footage of a type that is extremely difficult to shoot in China. The film will affect how Jews and non-Jews everywhere perceive the “lost“ Jewish communities all over the world and raise questions about what constitutes the global Jewish identity.