Now, that’s bloody hilarious. Jewish American Judy adopts a somewhat unusual Chinese baby … Here’s Judy Alive : Meet Judy Shapiro,a lonely New York City woman who adopts a Chinese baby girl. When the baby arrives from China, however, it’s a 30-year-old Chinese woman who was kidnapped in Beijing and sold on the black market to an American adoption agency. Judy is so anxious to be a mother, though, that she convinces herself she really does have an infant on her hands. […] Until recently I must admit, I’d been pretty lonely. But then I realized I was just ready to be a mom. But everyone said, "Judy, …

Lots of Israeli/Jewish blogophere coverage of  the Beijing Olympics. JTA has a whole page dedicated to the subject with various interesting posts like “A ’shalom’ from Chinese schoolchildren” and “A bar mitzvah amid the medals” and terrific photos : …

Since I started with two posts about Sino-Phobia, might as well go through with it. Okay, two more from that same morning show, and the same male host, Mr. Avri Gilad. Two more horrible videos that show some of the dialog regarding China in Israeli media : Male Host : […]  Good morning. Finance expert : After we heard about China and Macao, let’s talk a bit about the upcoming Olympics. Male Host : I wish they would cancel it. I wish no country would participate.  It’s outragous for anybody to go to China. It’s the worst scandal …

Being away from Israel I haven’t heard about this film coming out, but luckily, I stumbled across “Noodle” in a nearby DVD rental shop, and how glad I am that I did.

A Chinese female foreign worker, working for an Israeli woman - Miri, goes away for one hour and disappears leaving behind a sweet Chinese kid that knows absolutely no Hebrew. If you were Miri - what …

I’m not sure who did this and how, perhaps it’s mediated by English, but there are now a few online dictionaries that can translate between Hebrew and Chinese (מילון עברית סינית, מילון עברי-סיני). How odd, how wonderful. The first and most useful of all is a commercial product of an Israeli company – Babylon. Point at a word in Chinese, do a click combination (shift+click in my settings) and a translation will come up in Hebrew. I was so surprised the first time I noticed there’s a Chinese->Hebrew translation in there, I figured things have changed since I started studying Chinese and it’s probably time to do a short survey of the growing niche and available …

This is quite a remarkable story of a Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng-China. Haaretz tells their story with “Taking the Silk Route back home” (found through “Truth from Facts” in Chinalyst): Jin Jin and Nina Wang are students in Hebrew University’s preparatory program. They will soon commence their BA studies, but they already have long-term dreams. Jin wants to eventually serve as a diplomat in the Foreign Ministry. Wang hopes to use her …