Re: She still doesn't look Jewish

Joel Shurkin recorded on 08 mrt 2007 in soc.culture.jewish.moderated:

[...]
was one of the
first Chinese children - most of them girls - taken in by American
families after China opened its doors to international adoption in the
early 1990s. Now, at 13, she is one of the first to complete the rite
of passage into Jewish womanhood known as bat mitzvah.

bat mitzvah, is just the fact of being 12(!) for a girl.

"to complete the rite" sounds very Christion to me.

[...]

There are plenty of American Jews, of course, who do not "look
Jewish."

.... do not look Jewish "AS WE KNOW IT".

What racist nonsense.

And grappling with identity is something all adopted children
do, not just Chinese Jews. ...

Indeed.

===========

Would the decendents of these look Jewish as we know it?

China

The Jewish settlement in China has always been shrouded in mystery. There
is some evidence that during the Hun Dynasty - second century BCE - Jews,
coming mostly from Persia, settled in various locations, particularly in
the city of Kaifeng-Fu, on the Yellow River, the capital of Hunan
Province, in western China.

The small Jewish community enjoyed the protection of the Chinese rulers,
prospering yet maintaining their ancestral customs. Though they dressed
like the Chinese and spoke Chinese, they prayed in Hebrew. In 1163, a new
synagogue was constructed in Kaifeng-Fu, and in the fifteenth century it
was renovated - both times at government expense. Though the synagogue
remains, there are virtually no indigenous Jews in China today.

The Chiang Min tribe in western China, near Tibet, maintains a tradition
of connection to the ancient Israelites.

<http://www.cohen-levi.org/the_tribe/tribes_of_israel.htm>


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