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Heirs of the once-great community of Kaifeng are looking at their past and hoping, with help from Israel and Jews worldwide Judaism seems to have vanished from the city of Kaifeng, situated on the fabled Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean. Once, a small but thriving Jewish community existed here centuries before Marco Polo, the great Venetian explorer, traveled through China; a thousand years of assimilation into China has dimmed the Jewish light in the Far East. Yet some sparks remain. "I am a member of the Jewish people and I want to go back to my roots," says 19-year-old Jin Jing in fluent English.
For the first time, a Jewish educational center has opened in Brazil aimed at reaching out to the large numbers of Bnai Anousim living in the area Bnai Anousim are descendants of Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism during the Inquisition which began in the 15th century.
BBC News, Krakow, Poland Poland was home to one of the largest and most important Jewish communities in the world before World War II. Ninety percent of that community was wiped out by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
A new rabbi has been appointed to rebuild the Jewish community in the Polish city of Krakow Avraham Flaks, at the age of 38, has become Krakow's first rabbi since the Holocaust. It should be the dream posting. The southern Polish city has been a centre of Jewish scholarship for more than 700 years. On the eve of the Second World War, it was a thriving home to some 60,000 Jews - a quarter of the city's population.
Twenty Bnai Anousim hailing from Spain, Portugal and Brazil have been touring Israel this week on a solidarity visit. The tour was arranged by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, which assists “lost Jews” seeking to return to the Jewish people.
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