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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

Shanghai

Ho Feng-Shan poses for a photo taken while he was a Chinese consul in Egypt. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images/ via JTA)
February 20, 2023, 4:45 pm
Historical fiction novel about real-life Chinese rescuer of Jews sparks controversy
The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in ‘Night Angels’
By Jordyn Haime
Protesters against China's strict COVID rules pass near a police car in Beijing on Nov. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
November 28, 2022, 12:31 pm
China detains protesters, BBC journalist in crackdown on rare public demonstrations
Activists call for political freedoms, claim strict virus lockdowns hampered response to deadly blaze in Urumqi; protests not seen since 1989 pro-democracy movement
By Matthew WALSH and Jing Xuan Teng
Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on November 27, 2022. (AP Photo)
November 27, 2022, 8:53 pm
China crowds angered by COVID lockdowns call for leader Xi to step down
Police forcibly clear demonstrators who chant against powerful president in financial capital Shanghai; street protests erupt in several cities and reported at 50 universities
By Dake Kang and HUIZHONG WU
A resident staying at a temporary hospital converted from the National Exhibition and Convention Center to quarantine COVID-positive people squats near a propaganda poster calling for action against the pandemic in Shanghai, China on April 18, 2022.(Chinatopix via AP)
April 22, 2022, 11:51 pm
Surprisingly low Shanghai COVID death toll spurs questions of government cover-up
City of 25 million only reports 25 coronavirus deaths despite major outbreak in recent months; Chinese authorities use less transparent, inconsistent methods of tallying statistics
By HUIZHONG WU and Dake Kang
Purim in Shanghai, 2020. (courtesy, Hannah Maia Frishberg/ via JTA)
March 25, 2022, 12:34 pm
New strict COVID regulations in Far East push Jewish communities to adapt creatively
As the pandemic achieves some normalcy in North America after two years, Asia’s ‘zero COVID’ countries are in their third year — and a new wave
By Jordyn Haime
People attend a pro-Ukraine protest rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2022 after Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
February 24, 2022, 1:56 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 24: David Horovitz on failure of diplomacy in Russo-US struggle
Times of Israel editor speaks about the complex geopolitical history behind Russian invasion; Tal Schneider reports from Greece; Aaron Boxerman dives into Shanghai-posting scandal
By ToI Staff
MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi attends a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2022, 1:26 am
In first for Arab woman, Meretz MK appointed Israeli Consul General in Shanghai
‘It is a great privilege to be the first Arab woman to serve in such a senior diplomatic role,’ says Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi; move seen as also shoring up coalition stability
By ToI Staff
Rose Girone celebrating her 110th birthday on January 13, 2022. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
February 1, 2022, 9:42 pm
A Holocaust survivor spent her 110th birthday knitting – a craft key to her survival
Rose Girone fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, where her ability to knit didn’t just keep her family from starvation – her professional colleagues also gave her the strength to go on
By Tanya Singer
People visiting the site of a former synagogue at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on the day the museum reopened to the public after an expansion project in Shanghai, December 8, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP)
January 26, 2021, 11:10 am
Expanded Shanghai museum highlights China’s role as safe haven during Holocaust
Chinese authorities eager to draw attention to the 20,000 European Jews who escaped Nazi atrocities by sheltering in the city, where they remained throughout the war
By Peter Stebbings
Rabbi Shalom Greenberg distributed thousands of masks and aid kits to Jews and non-Jews in Shanghai's Hongkou district. (Courtesy Chabad Shanghai)
March 16, 2020, 11:56 pm
As virus ravages Asia, Jews carry on through faith in God and fellow man
Despite longstanding measures to maintain distance, communities across China, Japan, and Korea manage to still come together — and are even planning for communal Passovers
By Rich Tenorio
Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld, center, with Liu Shaoqi, left, then-political commissar of the New Fourth Army, and Chen Yi, right, then acting commander of the New Fourth Army, in 1941. (Courtesy Austrian Institute for Research on China and Southeast Asia)
August 12, 2019, 3:02 am
How a Jewish doctor helped form backbone of revolutionary China’s medical system
As the Chinese army turns 92, government continues to remember Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld, a Marxist and Holocaust refugee who fled to Shanghai and started a medical school
By Ronen Shnidman
In Yaotsu, Japan, in November 2017, a bust of Chiune Sugihara at the Memorial Hall museum in his honor. (Michael Wilner)
March 11, 2019, 4:44 am
Last Chabad yeshiva student to survive Holocaust via Shanghai dies at 100
Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Landa had been granted visa by Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara
By JTA
A view of Haifa bay, April 24, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
December 20, 2018, 12:08 pm
Has Israel made a huge mistake letting a Chinese firm run part of Haifa port?
‘Why did we do it? I don’t know, but we needed someone to operate our ports quickly,’ says official, amid fears Beijing’s potential intelligence gathering could keep US navy away
By Raphael Ahren
The child of a Holocaust survivor sharing his father's memories with residents of Hongkou, the former Jewish ghetto in Shanghai during WWII, in this still from 'Above the Drowning Sea.' (Courtesy Above the Drowning Sea/ Time & Rhythm Cinema)
April 29, 2018, 8:59 am
In new film, survivors recall placid WWII days in the safe harbor of Shanghai
Showing in LA on April 29, ‘Above the Drowning Sea’ documents the individual kindnesses in faraway China that saved 20,000 European Jews from Hitler’s killing machine
By Anne Joseph
In this image taken from a cellphone video provided to the Associated Press, firefighters put out a blaze after a minivan carrying gas tanks plowed into pedestrians along a street in Shanghai, February 2, 2018. (AP)
February 2, 2018, 8:34 am
Van carrying gas injures 18 in apparent accident in Shanghai
Authorities don’t think incident was terror related; driver, who was smoking inside vehicle, apparently ignited tanks he was transporting
By AP
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