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Interesting article in the New York Times about the Chinese orphan girls who are now going through their bat mitzvahs. Here's an excerpt, "While no statistics are kept on the number of Chinese children adopted by Jewish families, over all, there were about 1,300 Chinese children adopted into American families from 1991 to 1994, another 17,000 in the second half of the ’90s, and 44,000 since then, according to the State Department....“In my fantasy,” Ms. Nealon said, “we’d take her (their daughter) to Chinatown and have this incredibly beautiful Westernized Chinese dress made.” But Ms. Shapiro said: “She (the daughter) wanted no part of it. For her, this has nothing to do with being Chinese.”