Our favourite Yiddish-speaking reporter from Forverts returns with an episode on old people in China. He meets lots of elderly folks who're a lot happier than the abandoned grandma we just saw, and should his mom ever visit him here some days, he says he's found the perfect game that will connect them. more ›

Remember that interesting Yiddish report, "What do Chinese people think of Jews"? Apparently it's part of web series called "A New York Jew in China" by the Jewish newspaper Forverts. Here's all six clips in the series so far, and part 4's "Jewish Shanghai Lost and Found" (after the jump) is a must-watch for those of you that don't have the time. Kick back and enjoy the show: more ›

Very interesting report in Yiddish with English subtitles from Ross Perlin, correspondent with , a New York-based Jewish newspaper. more ›

Jews have had an extraordinarily close relationship with the port of Shanghai since before the second World War (and an even closer relationship during). But while their forebears came here to "survive... Now they come here to prosper," says Rabbi Shalom Greenberg in a great piece on The Atlantic about keeping the faith in this city. more ›

You may have never heard of Dr. Feng Shan Ho. He came from a poor family in Hunan, served in the middling position of Chinese consul to Austria in the 1930s, and died relatively unknown over 10 years ago. more ›

"China has deployed more than 8,000 soldiers and military reservists to help search and rescue efforts in the south-west after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 killed 38 people." more ›

Every once in a blue moon the local government is kind enough to open the doors of the Ohel Rachel synagogue and let Shanghai's ever-growing (or, more accurately, re-emerging) Jewish community celebrate their holidays in a proper temple. Tomorrow Shanghai residents will once again have the chance to step inside the more elegant of the city's two remaining synagogues and celebrate the Purim holiday. Although more commonly associated with dressing up in silly costumes and eating hamentashen, tomorrow's festivities will include a traditional Moroccan meal, perhaps in honor of Ohel Rachel's Sephardic heritage. more ›