Dear Mrs. Blumberg: I would very much like to answer your inquiry satisfactorily. However, I am not acquainted with the fish used in Hong Kong and Japan, never having been there. As for India, I was so hesitant in using any of their foods – for hygienic reasons – that I did not make any inquiries about kosher food. Perhaps you may turn to Rabbi Alexander Rosenberg of the U.O.J.C.A. (AL 5-1100) for information. Insofar as India is concerned you might try writing to Mr. Israel Kelman, who heads the Jewish Agency in Bombay and who is an observant Jew and will be most glad to furnish you any information you desire. His address is 137, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay 1, P.O. 8.1979 India. Best wishes for a happy Yom Tov and a delightful and rewarding trip. Sincerely, Rabbi Norman Lamm.

Dear Dr. Lamm: It was good to listen to your instructive words when the Kallah of Texas rabbis was in session. We all enjoyed very much your visit to our group and we do hope to see you again. You were kind enough to tell me that upon your return you will read my essay on the Shanghai Jewish Community in the October issue of Jewish Life. This is the only of the 5 articles I have written on the Shanghai Jewish Community that deals in detail with the influence of the political development of Shanghai on the structure of the Jewish Community especially during World War II. I would be glad to add your judgement to the others which I am enclosing. If you will have time enough, I would also be thankful to you to hear from you what your opinion is on my letter to Dr. Robert Gordis.incidentally you mentioned in your talk tuat in your congregation tuere are many women wno migut ue interested in meeting a future ausuand. 1 nave 1 or 2 candidates anal, taerefore, I will contact you wuen 1 will oe in ״ew iork in dune, please returntne materia^ sao id you a:ve no xurtuer need for it.In miarni 1 w s asked uy tne nassidim at tae n0tel wuen 1 spoke on vuina nd otuer tuings also, way 1 do tne Interfaith work, my answer was, I would like to practice tae possuk we pray every aay'iiAUDlU vOAmlm A: LILaU SOv " . Your president mr. m x Stern mi it ue interested in particular in cue uerman material, since m. inz-x-rankfurt a. m. is not far from nis native town Pulda. 1 was many ye rs ago in contact with. aim. 1 do not know waetner ne win rememuer my corxsponaeace. Please ive aim my oest regards nd also .0 Dr. sung, incidentally, tue m ״ter we discussed in ״ouston concemixg ?einstein's 1" sauva bout not needing a vet if taere was only a city or court marriage is not new,since jecniei deinuerg is of tae same opinion, uut not__wi cu regard to a xteform marriage, tais, according to *einerg.requires a vet. nest regards and vaak Someacn. \

Introduction – "My Life in Sin." Not a travelogue (though some details), but "J reflections." Origin of trip: China, Chinese Inter'l Cult'l Exch'ge/WJC. Purpose of Exchge: historic nature; who attended (including Ch–J: Sidney Shapiro). Beijing – Hong Kong: 1–2000 Jews; Chabad House…; Lord Kadoorie. HK & Beijing: a study in contrasts. Accomodations: Xiyuan. Deputy PM Wu: their purpose: Shanghai. Indeed – markets; tourism. Positive side-effects: Protocols Elders Zion. ST: "Israel Singer."The "Exchange" itself:Love of Learifth^ 7.7Einstein, Marx, KissingerC. SIMILARITIES & DIFFERENCES (other than: Great Mali vs Wm-f..)Size: 13 M Jews vs. 1.12 B Ch! (or: even w strict birth control, increase yearly=total popl'n Js in world!) 08Discomfort: Tiananman Sq. (Great Hall People recep'n)Both: Ancient peoples:grappling "Trad & Mod'y"Love of Learning; bait; Respect for ScholarsReserve/U^iX(; whereas A-Js & Israelis: open,brash_____________ ■allliang out"; first names at first encounterRespect. STJ (Anita Shapiro) "demise Marxism"-no ans!"Face"— Sil embarrassment at blow-up (naM&aA.?)T>• K ?י u< 0 t t> — -Kaifeng:lOOOyrs ago-pop'n IM, largest city worldthen (960-1127) 2000 ־ Js came (Silk Road)Emperor: compIt rel freedom; 1st synag 1163k eptzbC, 4«y4<, etc Torah on ■Seat Moses"_________ 13Jip?, 12=12 tribes, 13th=dedic'd *ge 5Gm rto—frttennnrg; but no connectn world Jery־י) $ ?Only no^J, no E+mteaPu; lost 10 tribes?■discovered" Jesuit missnry Matteo Riocci 1601- rush mTssionrs: convert to Chty; priceless Mss”1800 ״׳, end: synag disrepair; assimilated Chany Kaifeng Jews left? " 2000 "descendants" (most: Chrth); halakhic-some:140-2007 bu£ I: doubt if anymy meeting w Prof Zhao, wife, daughterBene IsraelWhy different destinies?—neither had Rabbis, Torah learningCh: utter openness, pluralism; Ind: caste systemLessons for us: 52% intermarriage etc."Little A-S good thing?■ >Hol^c't: HO, cancer; Duke, BuchananComplete freedom - as: total "wall sep'n", …

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…