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In Hong Kong, there’s a little slice of Manhattan — an area called Kennedy Town, which features not just one but two New York-style bagel shops. And in true New York fashion, they are at each other’s throats. Founded by Rebecca Schrage, daughter to a Hong Kong native mother and a New York Jewish father,…
American expatriate Nancy Kissel appeared in a Hong Kong court on Monday seeking to overturn her conviction for the murder of her Merril Lynch banker husband. Kissel, 49, has been in jail in Hong Kong since 2005 when she was found guilty of murdering her husband after giving him a drug-laced milkshake and then clubbing…
The Arty Semite contributor Christopher DeWolf profiles Hong Kong’s Rabbi Asher Oser and looks at the city’s Jewish history. The Jewish Chronicle talks to actor Elliott Gould. VICE Magazine talks to author Sam Lipsyte. “Lipstikka,” an already-controversial film by Israeli director Jonathan Sagall, will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Anselm Kiefer’s…
With stadium seating and the scent of fresh popcorn in the air, the November 21 screening of “A Jewish Girl in Shanghai” could have taken place in any shopping mall cinema in the world. But there was nothing ordinary about the film itself, which is China’s first homegrown Jewish movie, and an animated one at…
