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Moroccan food, klezmer music, and dancing in Shanghai's oldest synagogue. It was so good a party the PLA couldn't even stay away.

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.