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It was a case of East meets West in the Middle East Thursday night
when Shoshana Rebecca Li, a descendant of the Jewish community of
Kaifeng, China, married Ami Emmanuel, a new immigrant from Florida,
at Jerusalem's Great Synagogue.
"For me, to have a proper religious Jewish wedding in Israel, it is
a dream come true. I am very excited," Li, 29, said prior to the
ceremony.
Emmanuel, 25, said he never believed he'd marry an Asian woman
until he met Li at Kibbutz Sde Eliahu's Hebrew ulpan in May.
"I had heard about the old Jewish community of China and I love
Asian women, but I thought it was far-fetched. I also thought that
even if I had found a Jewish Chinese woman, the rabbinate would
have never approved," he said.
"I came to Israel because I am a Jew," she told The Jerusalem Post
on Thursday while she was getting ready for the wedding. "I was
raised knowing that I am a Jew and I made aliya because of our
tradition."
The groom emigrated from Florida two years ago, after studying
film.
Jews first settled in Kaifeng more than a thousand years ago, when
it was an important stop on the Silk Route from China to the
Mediterranean Sea. The community flourished, and numbered as many
as 5,000 during the Middle Ages. But the city's last rabbi died in
the first half of the 19th century, and assimilation and
intermarriage eventually led to the collapse of the community.
Nowadays, around 700 descendants of Jews live in Kaifeng and many
of them are seeking to reclaim their Jewish identity.
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Maybe you too are a Chinese Jew?.......they have Chinese
surnames.....!!