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The Republic of Turkey has denied the Armenian Genocide for the past 84 years, and politicians in Israel and a vast majority of officials of Jewish Diaspora are aboard their boat now. In the USA, for example, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) not only denied the Armenian Genocide in the past but ... actively fought against the Congressional Resolution for the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide. At the end of August 2007, the ADL finally recognized the Armenian Genocide through gritted teeth. The acknowledgment given, however, was qualified to such an extent that one could have done without it. A similar statement of recognition was also simultaneously supplied by the American Jewish Committee.
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A place of Jewish Diaspora significance was the ‘great intellectual centre [of] Alexandria’ (Bray 1996:49) in Egypt. The Jews at Alexandria were ‘deeply immersed in Hellenistic civilization’ (1996:53). By NT times, there were at least a million Jews living in this city (Cross 1974:399).
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The history of the Jewish Diaspora in modern China really begins in the second half of the 19th century, when China was forced to open her doors to Western powers. With the Treaty of 1843 that followed the first First Opium War, China surrendered Hong Kong to the British and opened five major port cities in Mainland China to British and, later, other foreign powers. Territorial enclaves in these Treaty Ports attracted many foreign adventurers, including Jews. In the following 100 years, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and later Harbin, Tianjin, and many other cities became centers of Jewish communal life, as more than 40,000 Jews came to China; first seeking business opportunities and, later, seeking a safe haven during the Second World War. This talk will examine the history and development of various factors that brought Jews to China after 1840, as well as the social, economic, cultural, and religious life of Jews in China, their relations with the Chinese, and Chinese policy towards them and their religion.
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Just as the Apostle Paul focussed initially on reaching the Jewish Diaspora as a means of impacting the surrounding Gentiles with the gospel, so too must the modern Asian Diaspora seriously consider its part in global missions. Paul’s methods focussed on the use of Scripture (the LXX) and places of worship (the synagogue). Likewise, as the Asian Diaspora and the parallel Asian Church grapples with its need to understand the biblical mandate for mission, it may find it has a significant role to play just as the Jewish Diaspora, their synagogues and the LXX had in reaching the Gentiles that surrounded them.
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Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, to give the museum its full name, is located on the Tel Aviv University Campus in Ramat Aviv district in the north of the city. To find the museum, enter through Matatia Gate 2.
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Beth Hatefutsoth - The Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, is actively documenting Jewish communities, past and present. The Museum's goal is to gather and create visual and written documentation to preserve Jewish heritage. Within this larger program, the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center provides genealogists with the opportunity to record their life's work for safekeeping, and to make it available to future generations. Jewish genealogy is not just a hobby, but ... the means to an end - the preservation of Jewish family heritage for posterity
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