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Passover Seder in China Opens Religious \Doors

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fice and officials from the
Canadian Consulate
where there are several
Jews employed, the
Seder was planned.

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the fair, DeLoya obtained
date paste, matzot and wine
for haroset, a can of grape
juice, and visiting Canadian
tourists had a Haggada and
a box of matzot and the
Seder was on.
Word must have spread
throughout Canton that a
Seder was being held: a
woman of Chinese origin
from Hong Kong heard
about the Seder and pro-
duced a bottle of Carmel
wine and two packages of
matzot.
DeLoya negotiated the
meal with the Chinese
caterers in the hotel, and he
instructed them to use the
Moslem kitchen, since the
latter would not have cer-

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wrote and planned the
menu which consisted of
fish, chicken, rice (Sephar-
dim are permitted to eat rice
on Passover), steamed veg-
etables and hard boiled
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DeLoya said he was called
in the next day by a Chinese
government official who
complimented him on in-
itiating the ceremony.

The Sephardi leader said
he felt that the Seder in the
People's Republic of China
has served as a precedent
for future events to meet the
religious needs of Jewish
businessmen and tourists in
that country.
The presence of Jews in
China goes back almost
1,900 years. It is reported
that in the First Century
CE groups of Jews, probably
remnants of the tribes of Is-
rael, came to China from the
Near East by way of Persia.
Later, the almost legendary
Marco Polo visited China
and reported on the Jewish
community there.

As the Seder began, the
men covered their heads
with hats, handkerchiefs
or with yarmulkas. As
DeLoya, who received his
religious education in
Morocco, chanted the
prayers, the Haggada
was passed from person
to person. A young girl
from Caracas, Ven-
ezuela, recited the Four
Questions. The tunes of
Passover songs filled the
banquet room.

"It was an emotional
event," DeLoya said, "for we
felt the ages of history were
binding us and that night
we were reciting the
prayers that once were re-
peated by thousands of Jews
of China."

Jewish life under the
Mongols resembled the
great development of the
Jews in Spain under the
Arabs. Jews never suf-

fered persecution in
China. Surrounded by
millions of Chinese, many
assimilated: By 1941,
about 25,000 Jews were
living in China. Included
in that figure were early
refugees from Nazism,
many of whom lived in
Shanghai. There were
also about 5,000 Russian
Jews in Harbin.

After World War II,
nearly all of the Jews left
China. The strife of the civil
war caused others to depart.
There are virtually no Jews
now in the People's Repub-
lic of China.

raeli circles indicate that a
most serious view would be
taken of any move by Syria
to advance its troops in
Lebanon southward to the
Litani River after the pull-
out of Israeli forces from
south Lebanon is completed
by June 13. There has been
no official reaction to recent
reports that the Syriens
were planning such a move.
The view is that a Syrian
advance would pose a grave
strategic danger to north-
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size and fire-power of Sy-
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Israeli forces were with-
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Christian units shelled
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skeletal figure of a death
camp inmate agonizingly
reaching skyward — is be-
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Holocaust memorial to be
installed in a Christian
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