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Wherever you go, as that old Hebrew-school song goes, there’s always someone Jewish—even in Kaifeng, China, as it turns out. The Israeli papers are carrying news of seven Chinese descendents of the Jewish community there who arrived earlier this week at Ben Gurion Airport, made a first stop at the Western Wall, and then will ...

• Turns out the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, won’t speak at the J Street conference next week, after all. The embassy announced the final decision yesterday. [JPost]
• In honor of the International Year of Astronomy (who knew?), Uranus and Neptune will be given Hebrew names, the last two planets to get ...

Strangely enough, my first conscious encounter with Pearl Buck did not take place in high school. That’s not to say I didn’t read The Good Earth. But if I did, it made no impression on me: at fifteen I was clearly more impressed by the familiar tales of Victorian romance than those of rural Chinese ...