A peninsula, Kowloon is attached to the main land and is about 4 square miles; across the water lies the island of Hong Kong, which is about 40 square miles. In this tiny area there live and work 6 million people. Is probably the most dense area in the world. Because it cannot grow horizontally, it grows vertically: enormous apartment blocks, some 30 to 40 or more stories high, but hardly any breathing space between them, clogs the entire island, even Kowloon and the New Territories. So crowded is it, that the average family is allotted no more than 500 square feet for their living space; in this entire area we did not notice a single pet, and hardly a tree — there is no room for such things. It is populated by people who are in perpetual motion and passionate and palpable pursuit of profit, and an almost sensual lust for money and for making it. Religiously, the most popular religion is Buddhism, then Christianity and Islam -- but the overwhelming majority are atheistic.The Jewish community contains from 1500 to 2000 souls. It is in many ways a microcosm of the world Jewish community: The establishment is on the style of England's United Synagogue --the president of the community is a 93 year old patriacian, who knows very little about Yiddishkeit. Lubavitch is an upcoming force, and founded the Carmel School, which is still a kindergarden but beginning to flourish. The established synagogue is on Robinson Road, and they have a transient Rabbi, Rabbi Lapin from England, and they serve the peninsula. In Hong Kong, the Lubavitch have their synagogue in the Hilton Hotel. There is a third synagogue which engaged a rabbi, because for them neither of the other two are good enough... The Lubavitch rabbi, a young man by the name of Rabbi is a11 caught up in the Lubavitch Messiah craze. Some super-frum pepole, influenced by Rabbi Shach, will have nothing to do with Lubavitch, not even joining them in a Talmud class...The Saturday that we were there we noticed that a thorou…