Kaifeng Jews synagogue

[jradetzky]

Hitler was a slacker

[jradetzky]

what is that thing on the side of the door?

[MrJeffrey3678]

I am a goyim with Polish Jew ancestry. Shalom Shalom may G-d grant you all long lives and prosperity

[AbuAvital]

Facinating, thanks for taking the time to post

[jojoinhere]

i don't know much about the Jew but i think Israel have great national anthem.

[trankuser9]

was it really necessary to play the whole schindlers list soundtrack way to fuck up wot may have been an interesting story.

[hedwig85]

@trankuser9 the song in the background is called, Ha'Tikvah (trans. The Hope). it has been played since late 1800s, as the anthem of Israel.. It also symbolizes the unified bond of all Jewish people around the world, in the years since forced to leave their homeland in ancient times (by the Babylonians ~598BC). I suspect this 2nd reason was used in choosing this music for the clip.

[lolman706]

@patmisir58 make aliyah screw ahmedinajad come to live with other jewsin israel without anti-semitism

[Maturion]

@patmisir58 nice. can you still live there freely as a jew? no offense, just curious.

[Lviv737]

@patmisir58 I thought they would put you to death Bacardi ur a /jew.My friend you need to move to different country in a hurry.

[cloudberry121]

@patmisir58

I think you are cool!

[cloudberry121]

OUTSTANDING video! Thank you so much for posting this. :-)

[ImperatorZor]

Kaifeng Jews should be all the proof that anyone should ever need that the idea of the "Racial Jew" which has caused so much needless misery and death over the past two centuries is nothing more than a Myth.

[xKatz90]

Shalom brother!

[ltmikepowell]

@patmisir58 Much like Asalam Mualaikum like the Muslims. Both races wishes others well being.

[barfridman]

@patmisir58 come to live in israel my firend =)

[Hatorah]

Great. Finally, we will have Kosher egg rolls and wong tong soup!!!

Be blessed my Chinese brothers and sisters!

[Mrjumper808]

good holy job

[Alexander78Mr]

Present Israel, is a real Babylon, in good meaning. God Bless!

[12345pimpship]

@Alexander78Mr Israel is trying to erase the culture of the various Jewish populations by implementing the European Jewish heritage on the kibbutz and other studies in their schools. They take Jews from around the world and by throwing them into Israel are erasing the identity they have, not preserving it.

[shalomyo]

spharedi culture is much more prominent than ashkenazi culture inside israel and only like 0.00001% of jews in israel speak Yiddish, ill be honest with u i only ever heard an old lady speak yiddish in israel and even then i didnt know what language that was until someone told me

if you ever lived in israel, ud notice that even eurpean jews use arabic/morrocan slang

i think you have been fed alot of misinformation about israel

[12345pimpship]

@shalomyo do you think there was any reason for spreading extreme Zionism to the rest of the world. The European Jews were one of the only groups to face such anti-semetism. Virtually in the rest of the world, Jews were tolerated well and fairly under their regime. Why do they need to be Israeli to be "observant". if they have kept their culture for thousands of years, I think that is pretty observant, and they dont need Zionists and Europeans to tell them what to do.

[shalomyo]

what the hell is extreme zionism?

there were progroms in iraq, north africa and also one in Argentina before israel was created and in some of those places jews were made to wear a star of david (which the nazis copied)

and most Sephardi and mezrahi jews who came to israel came because they were expelled from their lands and their wealth was stolen and they had nowhere else to go but israel

if you think antisemitism was only practiced in europe then u are highly deluded

[cloudberry121]

@12345pimpship

Please do not worry. Everyone who makes aliyah does so with eyes wide open and with free will. Jews around the world are tired of diaspora and want to go home.

[Alexander78Mr]

I like it!

[shlomofeuerwerk]

Wow. Fantastic.Thanks.

[EkaterinaRukovskaya]

The Jewsish soul yearning to return, they are most welcomed.

[12345pimpship]

@EkaterinaRukovskaya yearning to return? most non-european jews were happier where they were. Israel is controlled by European Jews trying to enforce their culture and "yiddish" language on diverse other cultures. it is true the Israelites were once one ethnic group but as they spread throughout the world they adopted different cultures and traditions. now they are united by religion not by a singular culture. I am a Cochin Jew and oppose the Zionist movement.

[jimmyjamesWang]

oh... what's this. oh my. Being a chinese, I dont even know about the Jews in Kaifeng until like recently. That explains why the entire city plans of Kaifeng is a lot different than other ancient chinese Capitals. lol, Hope they can restore the old synagogue.

[MakkabI]

That is really exciting.

Greetings from Australia.

Shalom. :)

[Yoshuayovel]

The music so boring. Play us other Jewish. Don't play Hatikva until Jews, Chiang-min and lost Israelites come back to Israel.

[Yoshuayovel]

By the way, this is my first time to see the synagogue. Thank you so much. And I can't believe I dreamed this place.(I dreamed three weeks ago and found my dad was there!)

Shaboth Sholom!

[jimmyjamesWang]

!!!!!!!!! What!!!!!, I only recently heard about the theory of Qiang people's possible descend from semetic roots, how did the information get to you guys so fast!? How many Jews actually believe in that theory?

[cloudberry121]

@jimmyjamesWang

There is a tribe in Africa and a village in India who have the same thing. They have taken DNA tests and 10% of their population have the "Cohen" DNA gene marker. It's very interesting if you get the time to research on it.

Thanks. :-)