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A Taiwanese Shabbat

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If it weren’t for the presence of three native Taiwanese fellow worshippers and the Chinese writing on the door, I could have been in any synagogue in the western world. But this one was on the fifth floor of the Sheraton International Hotel in this densely populated, colorful and exciting capital city. I had been invited to worship with the small – as in only seven people – group by Rabbi Ephraim F. Einhorn, a true character if there ever were one.  (About 80 people turned out a few weeks earlier for a kosher Passover seder. There are by estimates only about 100 to 150 Jews on the island of 23 million people, and they’re all either Israelis or Americans connected with businesses. There are no native Jews here, other than a few that Rabbi Einhorn has converted in… read more

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