Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were found this week on the walls of Riga's Choral Synagogue. Ephraim Meidan, head of the Jewish Agency delegation in the Baltic States reports that unknown persons daubed the synagogue with swastikas and graffiti such as - "Death to the Jews," "Go back to the ghetto," and more. The vandalism was perpetrated during the night preceding National Remembrance Day for Nazi victims, which was marked this week all over Latvia.

Latvian Prime Minister, Andreis Birojs, sharply condemned the vandalism and ordered the police to apprehend and indict those responsible. Birojs also ordered Latvia's Minister of the Interior to intensify security for the remembrance ceremonies which took place throughout Latvia.

Ephraim Meidan said that local residents gave the name 'Burnt' to the Riga Choral Synagogue, due to the cruel, murderous act perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Riga in July 1941. At that time, German soldiers and their Latvian collaborators brought 300 of the city's Jews to the synagogue and set them on fire. The Nazis surrounded the burning building, preventing the innocent victims from escaping. Anyone who attempted to do so was beaten and forced back inside.

The 'Burnt' synagogue now serves as a monument to those murdered in the Holocaust. This week the Latvian Jewish community held a memorial ceremony for the murdered Jews, which was attended by community chairman Gregory Kropnikov and official representatives of the Latvian Government. Prime Minister Birojs sent a letter expressing his sorrow at the act of vandalism to the synagogue and pledged to do everything possible in order to find those responsible.

The Jewish Agency's Department for the former Soviet Union estimates that some 10,000 Jews currently live in Latvia, 70% of whom live in the capital, Riga. The Jewish Agency has three local aliyah coordinators there, and operates a youth club and several Hebrew ulpan classes attended by 200 students. Riga has a Jewish school, synagogue and Chabad educational center which includes a school and kindergarten. More than 300 olim have arrived in Israel from Latvia since the beginning of the year.

More than 1500 Jews from Belarus and Jewish leaders from all over the world will participate next week in the dedication of a monument to the Jews of Belarus who perished in the Holocaust, located on the site of the Minsk ghetto. The official ceremony, which will be held under the auspices of the president of the Belarus Republic, Alyksandr Lukashenka, will be attended by Jewish Agency Treasurer Chaim Chesler; Israeli Ambassador to Belarus, Martin Peled-Flex; the Israeli entrepreneur and President of the Association of Jewish Organizations in the former Soviet Union, Lev Levayev; President of the Association of Jewish Communities in Belarus, Leonid Levine; and diplomatic representatives from all over the world.

Dudu Fisher, the well-known tenor, will say kaddish in memory of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The Jewish Agency's Tikva Youth Choir will perform. Following the ceremony, the Jewish leaders and government officials will convene for an official reception and dinner in the Hall of the Republic.

The monument was constructed by the Association of Jewish Communities in Belarus and the local government, together with the Jewish Agency and other Jewish organizations. Baruch Kamil, head of the Jewish Agency delegation in Belarus, said that the monument is located in the Minsk ghetto at the "Yama" death site where 5,000 Minsk Jews were murdered in one day, in 1942. The monument was designed by Leonid Levine, an architect by profession. He will redesign the site so that it becomes a fitting tribute to the memory of the Jews of Belarus. The Jewish community now plans to set up a museum about the Jews of Belarus in the ghetto, as well as a plaque with the names of all those who perished in the Shoah.

"We attribute supreme moral importance to the construction of this monument as a way of perpetuating the names of the tens of thousands of Belarus Jews who were murdered by the Nazis," said Levine. We will do everything to ensure that the Minsk ghetto becomes one of the most prominent sites established in memory for the victims of the Holocaust, comparable to Babi Yar in Kiev," he concluded.

• $9,000,000 - the amount funded by the Jewish Agency for Na'aleh 16, a three year residential educational program in Israel for youngsters from the former Soviet Union. Na'aleh, a Hebrew acronym for "Youth Immigrating in Advance of Parents," is an ideal way for teenagers from the FSU to complete their high school studies in Israel in a supervised educational setting.

• $780,000 is the Jewish Agency support for the senior educators training program. This year-long study program takes place at two Israeli universities: the Melton Center of the Hebrew University and the Lookstein Center at Bar Ilan. Participants follow a personalized course of study, designed to probe critical issues in education, reflect upon professional goals and develop new skills and resources which will enhance work in their communities.

• $305,000 is the amount of the Jewish Agency support for WUJS Institute in Arad for 2000. A non-profit organization, established by JAFI in 1967, WUJS's basic objective is to encourage the immigration and absorption of young college graduates, primarily from Western countries. Its curriculum includes five and a half months of study followed by six months of work in Israel.

• 25,000 children participate in a broad network of after-school tutorial centers for immigrant children as well as Israelis from disadvantaged backgrounds. The centers operate as a partnership between the Jewish Agency, the Israel Ministry of Education Foundation and local municipalities. The Jewish Agency's share of the budget of the centers for 2000 is $3 million.

• 2,000 - 2,500 youngsters will participate in the Jewish Agency's Exodus program this year, a "floating" seminar focusing on the illegal aliyah of the post World War II period. This recreation of one of Israel's significant historic episodes has proven an effective educational tool. The cost of the program is covered by the participants.

• 941 new immigrants arrived in Israel this week, 750 of them from the former Soviet Union. The remainder came from France, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Germany, England, Australia, USA, Canada, Ethiopia and India.

The vote of the Jewish community in Mexico was independent and covered the entire political spectrum, paralleling that of the general population, said Daniel Liwerant, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod this week in Mexico City, where he resides.

Vincente Fox, the candidate of the right-wing and centrist PAN party, received 42% of the vote in lasts week's Presidential elections in Mexico.

The presidential elections, which took place in Mexico earlier this week, were won by Vincente Fox, candidate for the PAN right-wing and center party (the National Action Party) which took 42% of the vote. This brought to an end 71 years of rule by the PRI center party, which took just 35% of the vote. The left-wing PRD party took 17% of the vote.

According to Liwerant, Fox's election campaign promises to maintain pluralism, tolerance and continue the secular education program, created a favorable impression with the community. This was reinforced following Fox's pledge to act to form a national-unity government comprising representatives of all parties.

Liwerant believes that since none of the parties, including the PAN party led by Fox, won an absolute majority in the house of representatives and the senate, the changes which Fox intends to implement will require the cooperation of the other parties, as has been the case in Mexico in recent years.

Liwerant says that the Free-Trade Agreement signed in Jerusalem in March this year between Israel and Mexico, that was ratified by both houses of parliament last week and fully supported by the PAN and PRI parties, reinforces the feeling that the commercial and political ties between Mexico and Israel will remain unchanged.

"Judaism undeniably refers to a race and not to a religious community ... Everything that drives men toward the exalted-religion, socialism, democracy-serves the Jews only as the means by which to achieve their end: to satisfy their lust for money and control. What the Jews do is going to infect other races with their 'racial tuberculosis.' The ultimate goal must be to get rid of the Jews altogether."

This quote, taken from Hitler's first political essay, (September 16, 1919, Munich) appears in the Anthology of the History of the Holocaust, published by Yad Vashem and the Lohamei Hageta'ot Publishing House as part of the Holocaust curriculum intended for Israeli Arab citizens. This anthology of texts was edited by Dr. Irit Abramski-Bligh and contains documents-in Hebrew and Arabic-that record the planning and implementation of the Nazi extermination machine, as well as testimonies of victims and witnesses. It also includes excerpts from literature, which show the influence of the events of the Holocaust on contemporary Israeli society. At the end of the anthology are extracts from articles written by Arab intellectuals describing the relevance of the Holocaust for the Arab public.

The materials are aimed at university students, future teachers and high school students, who will study the Holocaust from primary sources.

Zvi and Leah Yavnieli will leave for Hong Kong next month to teach Hebrew to 250 pupils at the Carmel Jewish School. The couple are among the group of 140 Israelis who are currently undergoing training before departing in August for their Jewish Agency missions in more than 30 countries around the world.

Yohanan Simon, head of the Jewish Agency Emissary Authority, said that the mission of shlichim (emissaries) is a Zionist endeavor. The significance of this undertaking is to bring the State of Israel to Jewish communities in the Diaspora and strengthen the partnership between Jews in the Diaspora and those in Israel. The shlichim implement programs aimed at intensifying Jewish education and Jewish identity as well as encourage aliyah by providing information on opportunities in employment, education and housing in Israel.

The training program for the shlichim, organized by the Jewish Agency's Emissary Authority includes in-depth familiarization with the Jewish Agency structure and all its activities; knowledge of the Jewish communities and organizations abroad, and acquisition of professional skills for public appearances, interviews, etc. The training program also relates to the spouses and children of the shlichim and focuses on the transition from one culture to another and familiarity with the Jewish world.

About 30 of the 140 shlichim, most of them veteran olim, are being trained to function as emissaries of aliyah, education, student and youth in the former Soviet Union. Others will serve as community shlichim and youth-movement shlichim in the West. The rest, who are educators, are participating in a special course which trains shlichim for various Jewish schools in the West.

The shlichim will serve in their new positions for two to three years. The aliyah shlichim will encourage aliyah among those entitled to immigrate and take care of all aspects of the aliyah process. The community shlichim will strengthen ties between the Jewish community and the State of Israel. The youth movement, student and organization shlichim, including those to the Conservative Movement, Young Judea, Beitar, Bnei Akiva, Hashomer Hatzair, Habonim Dror, Hanoar Haziyoni and the Hazit Hanoar, will engage in intensifying Jewish Zionist education and shaping Jewish identity among the youngsters and students. Those sent as educators will teach Jewish subjects and the Hebrew language in Diaspora schools.

The shlichim come from a wide range of social backgrounds and include veteran olim, particularly among those going to Latin America and the FSU, as well as native-born Israelis. They range from kibbutz members to city dwellers of all ages. They are members of the media, administrators, social workers, lawyers and educators.

In August training programs will begin for 60 girls from the Bat Ami national-service organization, for boys embarking on a year's national service in Jewish communities around the world, and dozens of shlichim from the Zionist Kollel.

The UJC Campaign Chairs and Directors Mission starts next week with a three-day visit to the Jewish community of Uzbekistan, accompanied by Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor and JDC representative Aryeh Dubov. Following the visit to Uzbekistan, the mission will spend three days in Israel. All of the 150 mission delegates will visit Tashkent, where they will take part in interactive Jewish Agency programs, including the JAFI Activities Center, ulpan classes and youth activities.

The Women's Campaign Chairs and Directors will travel on to the city of Samarkand, while the General Campaign participants will visit Bukhara. They will all enjoy home hospitality offered by the parents of teenagers and young adults participating in Jewish Agency activities in Israel. When the mission arrives in Israel, the delegates will meet the children and students from Uzbekistan -- and bring messages and greetings from their parents.

There are 24,000 members of the Jewish community in Uzbekistan, located in three cities; Tashkent, the capital where 14,800 Jews live; Samarkand, with 4,200, and Bukhara with 3,000 Jews. Since the beginning of the massive wave of aliyah, 75,745 Jews from Uzbekistan made aliyah.

In an unrelated event, at the same time that the Campaign Mission is in Bukhara, the Knesset will conduct a special session devoted to the absorption of olim from that region.

One highlight of the mission visit in Israel will be a flight to the north to express solidarity with the residents of communities on the Confrontation Line. The mission will also meet with doctors and nurses who were among the volunteers in the Jewish Agency's Global Jewish Medical Mission for the People of Ethiopia. The mission will also have the opportunity to meet a number of young adults - former immigrants from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union - who are making a difference and serving as role models for their communities in Israel.

After not having seen one another for 25 years, Galina Medbarak from Yavne was reunited with her sister Marina Portnoy, who was flown to Israel in a special Jewish Agency operation. Marina, 65, was located a few months ago in a retirement home in a remote Russian town, in severe medical condition and suffering from malnutrition. She is now in Israel, pleased with the warm welcome she received from her sister, 70-year old Galina and her family, and unable to hold back her tears of joy.

The story of their separation began during the Second World War in Zhitomir in Ukraine, when their father enlisted in the Red Army. Their mother was hospitalized and all the children, including Marina and Galina, were sent to orphanages. Marina and her younger brother Simeon, were sent to the Ural Mountains and Galina was evacuated to Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

It was only 14 years after the end of the war that Galina discovered that her sister was alive and living in Sverdlovsk, which later became Yekaterinburg. The sisters kept in touch by telephone and paid each other occasional visits. Their brother Simeon has never been found. In 1969, Marina, then a young pediatrician, was sent to work in Perm in central Russia while Galina remained in Zhitomir. This was the last time the sisters saw each other.

In 1990 Galina made aliyah and settled in Yavne. When she wanted to invite her sister to follow her to Israel she discovered that the house in which Marina lived had been destroyed and another building was under construction on the site. Only in February this year did Galina find a lead which led to her sister. During a chance conversation with a new immigrant from the Perm area, the woman discovered that Marina had been found in an isolated retirement home.

With tears in her eyes, Galina contacted the Jewish Agency's Aliyah Department where the Russian desk immediately began a search for her sister. Ruth Rudshevsky, Jewish Agency aliyah emissary in Yekaterinburg located the retirement home and discovered that it was extremely neglected, lacked reasonable living conditions and was situated in an area reachable only in the summer months, as the dirt tracks are blocked when rains begins.

Rudshevsky began to prepare the necessary documents for Marina's aliyah and a Christian aid organization assisted in transferring the elderly woman to a hotel in Yekaterinburg.

By this time, Galina could no longer bear to wait and she traveled to Russia to meet her sister. At the beginning of last week both the sisters landed safely in Israel. Marina is now beginning to adjust to life in Israel and has begun learning Hebrew. Her delighted sister Galina says that Marina is very happy in Israel and that despite her age she has an excellent memory - she can already say 'thank you' ('todah') in Hebrew.

More than 700 young people, new immigrants and Jewish tourists living at the Jewish Agency's absorption centers and kibbutz ulpans in the north, received "birth certificates" with their Hebrew date of birth, at a ceremony held this week in Upper Nazereth. The ceremony marked the conclusion of a special educational program devoted to Jewish heritage and intensification of Jewish and Israeli identity.

The program, which lasted throughout the month of Sivan (June), was designed to acquaint the participants with subject matter related to the Jewish people, Jewish identity and Israeli society. It included educational trips to historic sites all over Israel, workshops and discussions on subjects such as the Law of Return, the Declaration of Independence, the State of Israel, religious and national symbols and the Jewish calendar.

After the ceremony the participants visited an exhibition about Jewish festivals and a display called "My Israel" of postcards produced by the students themselves.

Yael Reich, supervisor of youth programs, said that Jewish Agency absorption programs in the northern region currently cater to 2000 youngsters from all over the world - both new olim and tourists. They include participants in the Selah and Chalom programs, ulpan students at absorption centers, and kibbutz ulpanim, students on academic and professional training programs. Volunteers from Jewish communities the world over, who are attending programs that encourage aliyah or who are in Israel within the context of the Jewish Agency's Partnership 2000 activities, also participated in the program.

Many young people from the Toronto Jewish community participated last week in a special community volunteer day, organized by the UJA Federation of Toronto, called 'One Hot Day'. The participants undertook to volunteer in a variety of ways on a Sunday morning, including: Cleaning up the Don River Parkland; painting a breakfast room at The Shalom Food Project, intended for non-Jewish needy, which provides after-school activities, housing for victims of domestic abuse and adults with mental health challenges. They also volunteered to do gardening at nursing homes and sort clothes at a shop which provides clothes for the needy.

This event represents a growing trend by young professionals to tackle specific projects in addition to donating money to charitable causes.

Ten children of olim from the former Soviet Union who live in Karmiel, and eight children from the Jewish community in Pittsburgh participated together in a Bar-Mitzva celebration which took place last week at the ancient synagogue in Tiberias. The celebration was part of the "Bar Mitzva" program initiated by the Jewish Agency - UJC Partnership 2000 program.

The youngsters from Pittsburgh visited Israel with their families as part of a family trip organized every year by the Pittsburgh Jewish community. Zur Goldblum, Jewish Agency emissary in Pittsburgh who accompanied the families, reports that the delegation toured the entire country and paid a special visit to Karmiel - its partner in the Partnership 2000 program.

Despite the obvious language barriers, close friendships were formed between the Israeli children and their guests. One of the guests, Jessica Garber, made new friends in Karmiel - Natalie and Rima, who recently made aliyah from the former Soviet Union. She hopes that this new friendship will last, despite the great distance which separates them.

The Bar Mitzva program, is designed to enable the children of new olim, particularly those from the former Soviet Union and from Ethiopia, to hold a traditional, Jewish Bar-Mitzva ceremony. This summer the youngsters from Karmiel were joined by their contemporaries from the partnering Jewish community in Pittsburgh.

The Bar Mitzvah celebrants plant saplings in the Karmiel "Pittsburgh" forest established through "Partnership 2000"

Minister of the Interior Natan Sharansky has announced that he will resign on Sunday if the summit meeting between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, under the auspices of President Clinton takes place in Camp David. The announcement immediately followed the US President's statement that the summit meeting would take place next Tuesday. The National Religious Party announced that it would be convening the party's institutions in order to make a decision regarding its leaving the coalition.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday made a brief trip to Europe where he met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, to update them on his plans for promoting the peace process.

At the end of a tough debate, the Knesset accepted the recommendations of the Tal Commission on the subject of the deferment of military service for yeshiva students. 52 MK's voted in favor of the bill and 43 voted against (mainly members of the Likud, Shinui and Meretz parties who are not coalition partners).

The doctors' strike is now entering its 114^th day. Yesterday the doctors stopped performing operations.

Israel is currently in the throes of a heatwave. Temperatures in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa have soared to 95⁰ F.

During the past two months, 4,000 people visited the "Exodus 1947" museum which opened immediately prior to Holocaust Memorial Day at the Magen David Jewish School in Mexico City. The exhibit portrays events surrounding the illegal immigration ship "Exodus" and its 4,500 passengers.

The Magen David Jewish School has 1,200 students from kindergarten through high-school, 90% of whom are the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the Aleppo Jewish community in Syria. According to Avinoam Granot, Jewish Agency emissary in Mexico City, who is also the school principal, the school opens two learning centers each year which focus on two subjects: one of universal interest and the other Jewish. This year the main subject is the story of the Exodus.

With the help of material collected by the pupils during the school year, a museum and "Exodus 1947" learning center was opened on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day. The museum, designed by Israel Karabel and Malka Melamed, portrayed the story of the Exodus for two months in chronological order and in "hands-on" format. The first section of the museum focused on the Holocaust and presented Jewish community life in Europe, the ghettos, the concentration camps, the struggle against Nazism, the survivors and perpetuation of the memory of the victims. The second section of the museum included a model of the ship, and visitors received embarkation certificates and watched a documentary film of the voyage of the Exodus.

Thousands of people visited the museum, including members of the Jewish community, pupils of the Magen David school, pupils from Jewish schools and groups of visitors from universities and non-Jewish schools in Mexico. Magen David high-school students who studied the subject during the school year and met with passengers who had traveled on the Exodus, served as museum guides.

There are 14 Jewish day schools in Mexico City, attended by 85% of the children in the community. There is also a community center in the capital city to which 70% of the community belongs. According to Granot, the Jewish education system in Mexico City is extremely developed and maintains close ties with educational institutions in Israel, including the Jewish Agency's Education Department, Bar Ilan University, the Hebrew University and the Branco Weiss Institute.

The Jewish population of Mexico numbers 40,000, 98% of whom live in the capital - Mexico City. There are two other Jewish communities in Monterey in the north and Guadalajara in the west. Despite the fact that the Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Syrian communities maintain separate institutions, the community has a firm, effective organizational structure. Mexico also boasts a Jewish university which is recognized by the Ministry of Education and trains professionals mainly for the teaching profession. There are more than 10 active Zionist youth movements and they conduct their activities on weekends and in summer camps.

The Jewish Agency has more than 30 shlichim (emissaries) in Mexico, engaged in formal education and two shlichim working in informal education. Hundreds of Jewish youngsters from Mexico visit Israel each year on a Jewish Agency "Israel Experience" program.

Los Angeles Dodger Shawn Green will go to bat to promote KOREH L.A.: The Los Angeles Jewish Coalition for Literacy, a program of The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles. A month ago Green announced his intention to join the KOREH L.A. reading program which has hundreds of volunteers who help develop reading abilities of students in grades 1 through 4. Most of the students read below grade level.

Since KOREH L.A. Literacy Program ("Koreh" is the Hebrew word for "read") was launched last Fall, more than 600 volunteers have been recruited, trained and placed in over 30 L.A. Unified School District schools. Those lending their time range from individual adults, to youth groups, as well as entire upper grade classes whose school curriculum embraces the program. The immediate goal is to double the size of the program within the coming year.

Green's announcement was cheered by Shalhevet High School student volunteers and their 1st grade reading partners who recently celebrated the completion of the year-long program. Green congratulated the children for their efforts and pledged to support the program, which will be expanded over the next five years, thanks to a grant of $100,000 per year for up to five years from The Winnick Family Foundation.

Green has selected the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles as his philanthropic home. He has returned to California and the L.A. Dodgers after playing for the Toronto Blue Jays. "Returning to Los Angeles fulfills a longtime goal. Being in my own community inspires me to play my best and help where I can. I am grateful to the Jewish Federation for this opportunity to make a difference," said Green.

This is the second visit by a high-ranking Indian official to Israel, following the visit two weeks ago by India's Minister of the Interior. This week India's Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh, will arrive for a visit in Israel.

The visit by the Foreign Minister raised, once again, the discussion regarding the Bnei Mennashe community, numbering 800,000 people, who live in north-east India. The majority reside in the two provinces which border Burma: Mizoram and Manipour. Members of this community want to make aliyah, since they claim to be descendants of the tribe of Mennashe, one of the ten lost tribes.

A spokesman for the Indian Foreign Ministry told Michael Jankelowitz, the Jewish Agency's liaison to the foreign press, that the State of Israel does not recognize the members of the community to be Jewish, and thus they are not entitled to immigrate under the Law of Return. He added that this does not concern the Indian government, which does not prevent the emigration of any of its citizens.

Some 1,000 members of the tribe of the Bnei Mennashe community already live in Israel. The Israeli Ministry of the Interior issues them with a special permit. About 150 members of the community arrive in Israel each year and are awarded Israeli citizenship. One of the key supporters of bringing this community to Israel is Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail of the Amishav organization.

The Canadian producer, Simcha Jacobovici, recently produced a film about the tribe which was broadcast on Canadian TV and will be broadcast on Israel TV as well.

Since the establishment of the State of Israel, some 30,000 immigrants have made aliyah from India. Most live in Ramla, Lod, Ashdod, Beersheva, Dimona and Yeruham. Approximately 5,500 Jews remain in India: These include about 100 members of the Cochin community, about 110 who origin from Baghdad, and the rest belong to the "Bnei Israel" community who are concentrated in Bombay.

Ingredients:

• chicken breast 1 ¾ lbs
• small white mushrooms 3 ½ oz
• 4 medium tomatoes (blend in mixer with ½ cup water to make 1 cup of tomato paste)
• 4 medium onions
• Cashew nuts 3 ½ oz
• 2 pieces fresh ginger (crush to make 1 tablespoon paste)
• 1 tablespoon fresh coriander
• 1 clove of garlic (crush to make 1 tablespoon paste)
• 2 cups of water for sauce
• 4 tablespoons oil
• 2 tablespoons margarine (to saute the chicken)

• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon paprika powder
• 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
• Salt to taste

• Clean the chicken breast, remove the fat and cut into ½ inch pieces and saute for 5 minutes.
• Peel onions, wash and cut into julienne pieces (fry the onions to light golden brown. Put in a blender with ½ cup water to form paste)
• Wash tomatoes, peel and crush in blender with ½ cup water and blend into paste to make 1 cup.
• Take cashew nuts, grind with ½ cup water until the paste forms. (Keep aside some pieces of crushed cashew nuts for garnish).
• Clean and wash the mushroom. Cut into fours.

• Take a deep pan, cook on low flame.
• Add 4 tablespoons of oil. Heat oil.
• Add garlic paste and saute until brown.
• Add the ginger paste, saute for another 2-3 minutes.
• Add the tomato paste and continue cooking for another 5-7 minutes.
• Add the onion paste mixture and saute for another 2-3 minutes.
• Add the cashew nut paste and saute.
• Add all the powdered spices and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
• Cook until you see the oil separating from the spice mixture. Now you know the sauce is ready. Remove the pan from fire and put aside. Combine chicken and sauce and heat together thoroughly - do not boil!

B'Te'avon! Bon Appetit!