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Religious life
The Jews in Hong Kong are able to freely practice their religious holidays, including holding Shabbat meals, celebrating the main Jewish holidays (Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Shavuot, Pesach and others), and developing religious educational programs. Hong Kong has four active synagogues (three of which have full-time rabbis), a Jewish school (Carmel School for young children), two Sunday schools (the Ezekiel Abraham School for teenagers and the Shorashim school for children), and a Jewish cemetery in the Happy Valley area. The main synagogue is Ohel Leah, built in 1901–1902. While it is formally aligned to Modern Orthodox Judaism, the synagogue is visited by adherents of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, Reform Judaism, and Conservative Judaism.The Jewish Community Centre is home to the United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong, which caters to about 500 people who belong to heterodox currents of Judaism (reformists, liberals and conservatives). Since its founding in 1988, the congregation has been closely associated with the Jerusalem-based World Union for Progressive Judaism and the Australian Union for Progressive Judaism.The Sephardic congregation Shuva Israel is located in the Fortune House, in Central District. It provides restaurants and offices with kosher food, conducts worship services, teaches adults and children, and provides other services to residents and tourists. A synagogue, study hall, library, restaurant, and kosher grocery occupy two floors of the community office. In addition, ten families of the congregation have their own preschool and cheder in the Pok Fu Lam area.The Hoover Court building on McDonnell Road in the Mid-Levels is home to the Chabad of Hong Kong office, and on Chatham Road in Tsim Sha Tsui is the Chabad of Kowloon office, opened in 2005 in the Oriental Centre building. The Chabad-Lubavitcher Hasidim are an active but isolated Jewish community in Hong Kong. Arriving in Hong Kong in 1985, the city has become the headquarters for the Chabad-Lubavitcher in Asia.The business complex Wing On Plaza in the Tsim Sha Tsui East area houses the office of the Sephardic community Kehilat Zion, which unites more than 900 people. Founded in 1995 by a Syrian businessman and the Jerusalem Sephardic Center, the Community Synagogue serves the faithful throughout Kowloon. The spiritual leader of Kehilat Zion is also the Chief Rabbi of the entire Sephardic community in Hong Kong. The community manages a library and a kosher restaurant, lectures and seminars, provides kosher food and reserves hotel rooms for those who wish.
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