New Chinese Jewish immigrants settle in
It’s been a busy week for Gao Yichen, Yue Ting, Li Jing, Li Yuan and Li Chengjin, the five Chinese Jewish women who made aliyah last week with Shavei Israel’s help. After their emotional departure from Kaifeng (see picture above) and their subsequent arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on February 29, the women have been settling into their new lives in Jerusalem.
Their home for the coming months will be Midreshet Nishmat – the Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women – where they will be studying Judaism and Hebrew as they prepare for formal conversion to Judaism through Israel’s Chief Rabbinate.
Here’s a picture of the women studying Hebrew at Nishmat.
And here they are on their first “tiyul,” taking in that most quintessential modern Jerusalem site: the Mahane Yehuda market. In the center of the picture is one of their counselors from Nishmat.
You can read more about their arrival at this link.
You can read some of the extensive news coverage here.
To learn more about Shavei Israel’s activities in China, click here. To make a donation, please visit this page.
You can read the profiles we compiled by clicking the following links for: Li Jing, Gao Yichen, Li Chengjin, Li Yuan and Yue Ting.
And of course, if you run into any of Jerusalem’s newest immigrants taking in the vibe and atmosphere of the Holy Land, don’t be shy: wish them a hearty shalom and brucha haba’ah – welcome – to Israel!