Also, FYI, this may be of interest to the person moving to Japan: There is a Christian choir in Japan, called Makhelat Hashachar, aka the Shinonome Choir (The Dawn choir), that sings Jewish songs to celebrate Judaism, They came to Temple Israel, Boston, twice, in the 1980's, because our rabbi at the time had met them when he lived in Japan.
https://www.jweekly.com/2016/10/20/japanese-christian-choir-sings-praises-of-jews-israel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgEqoieGt8 On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 1:04 AM ALBA TOSCANO via Hasafran < [email protected]> wrote: > Sending this reply again > TBE Library via Hasafran wrote: > > ....moving... to Japan for a year to a city with no synagogue or visible > Jewish community. > > Hyya All! > From 1973-1977 I lived in and taught english at the Yokohama YMCA, and at > an all-girl high school in the near-by town of Fujisawa (Japan). I may have > gone up to Tokyo maybe 4 times in all that time, because I suffer from the > paralyzing fear of being squashed in the 7th level underground in a subway > in an earthquake. > > Though I can't be of much help without knowing exactly where the friend is > moving, there are two possibilities of finding something that resembles a > jewish community. > > - The u.s.a. Armed Forces. Yokosuka and Zama are not far from > Yokohama. There are other army or navy or air forces bases in Japan but far > far far fewer than when I was banging around Japan during the Vietnam > conflict thing. So look up alll the u.s.a. armed forces bases in Japan on > the internet and contact them about the jewish commuinites (if any) that > may exist today. > - Shabuya (Tokyo) > https://www.cjnews.com/uncategorized/tale-two-chabads-tokyo There > are two jabad (that don't talk to each other) and one non-jabad synagogue. > These did not exist when I was there but I had the now-closed Yokohama Navy > Base nearby with a rather biggish jewish community. I met, can't remember > how, a medical doctor who got me on and off the base for Rosh haShana and > Yom Kipur. I may have also gone to one Seder. The trick is getting someone > with access to whichever military base to accompany you while you are on > that base. > - YOUTUBE: the closest thing to a book. The fist YOUTUBE was done in > 2019 and the second in 2014. Not a whole lot of information but it's a > start. Unfortunately just like here in Spain, the jewish population is so > fluid that almost all info is out of date before it is published even on > the internet > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMoJYDluyxQ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WN57HNwNtU > > Happy Januka! > > Hugz > Alba Toscano > Sinagoga La Javurá > c/Baró de Patraix, 13, pta 3 > 46018 Valencia (SPAIN) > > www.lajavura.org > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > -- Ann Abrams, Librarian Dr. Arnold L. Segel Library Center Temple Israel 477 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02215 [email protected] www.tisrael.org 617-566-3960 x116 Check out our library catalog: http://library.tisrael.org The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. Mahatma Gandhi.
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