{"id":2537,"date":"2017-11-23T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulanuarchive.kulanu.org\/?page_id=2537"},"modified":"2019-04-05T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:54:57","slug":"an-appeal-for-the-shinlung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/communities\/india\/an-appeal-for-the-shinlung\/","title":{"rendered":"An Appeal for the Shinlung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">By Jack Zeller, 1998<\/p>\n<p>As you may know from previous newsletters, the Shinlung Jewish community (the <em>Bnei Menashe<\/em>) of northeastern India \u2014 who are of Chinese extraction \u2014 never comes to Israel according to the Law of Return. The reason is this: The community is very proud and does not want to be accused of abusing a law that is already criticized as being too generous. This is quite painful since the Shinlung feel awkward whenever they do something which diminishes their historic claim to Jewish origins.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the day after Shinlung arrive in Israel they begin work to support themselves, at the same time that they begin absorption and formal training for conversion by the chief rabbinate. It is a remarkable feat when you consider how much money the Jewish Agency (through your federations) spends for absorption centers to the same end.<\/p>\n<p>The one expense that the Shinlung need help with is transportation costs to Israel. There are now 30 Shinlung who are ready to leave for Israel and there is a $5000 shortfall in transportation expenses. While at earlier times the impediment to their arrival lay with unsympathetic ministries, the current impediment is something WE can easily overcome.<\/p>\n<p>I am asking those in Kulanu who believe in the legitimacy of the <em>Bnei Menashe<\/em> or Judaism-by-choice (take your pick) to act now to help keep the Chinese Diaspora <em>Aliyah<\/em> alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Zeller, 1998 As you may know from previous newsletters, the Shinlung Jewish community (the Bnei Menashe) of northeastern <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1222,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template\/full-width.php","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Appeal for the Shinlung - Kulanu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Jack Zeller, 1998 As you may know from previous newsletters, the Shinlung Jewish community (the Bnei Menashe) of northeastern India \u2014 who are of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/communities\/india\/an-appeal-for-the-shinlung\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Appeal for the Shinlung - 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