Reform, Chabad join forces in Beijing
by Alison Klayman
BEIJING, China [JTA] — In a rare case of Jewish unity, Chabad and Reform Jewish organizations cooperate in Beijing to promote Jewish life in China’s capital city, as the recent celebrations of Purim demonstrated.
The two Purim celebrations seemed worlds apart.
At the Chabad-run service, a Lubavitcher rabbi chanted the megillah to an audience segregated by gender, and Beijing’s kosher restaurant catered the meal after the reading.
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