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From

OCT, 18-19; 19-20; 26-27

$ 189

SHAW FESTIVAL-
NIAGARA•ON-THE•LAKE, ONTARIO $224

OCT. 5-6, 2 PLAYS

NASHVILLE

SEPT. & OCT.

$329

CHICAGO

$ 189

NOV. 2-3

$48

TOLEDO—NOV. 24

NOV. 23-24

FALL COLOR TOURS

SHIPSHEWANA

$ 42

OCT. 1

TRAVERSE CITY

OCT. 4-6

$219

VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE $599

SEVENTH HEAVEN

OCT. 2-8

AGAWA CANYON FALL COLOR TRAIN $249

SEPT. & OCT. DATES

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Mon:Sat. 10.6
Thurs. 10.8, Sun. 12.5

BOSTON/CAPE COD $649

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OCT.6-12

10-day
Carribean Cruise

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MACKINAC ISLAND

261
OCT. 4-6
(LUNCH GRAND HOTEL S19 ADDITIONAL)

SMOKEY MOUNTAINS

$

$399

OCT. 20-24

ALL PRICES P.P. DBL. OCC.

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T

he rising cost of over-
seas vacations kept
most Israelis at home
this summer, but tens of
thousands, nevertheless,
managed to travel abroad —
mostly to Western Europe or
the United States.
People who go elsewhere to
vacation don't deny the ex-
istence of attractive resorts in
Israel itself, but, they argue,
the only way for an Israeli "to
get away from it all" is to get
away from Israel. If he stays
put — even at a luxury hotel
in Eilat or at a kibbutz guest
house on the shores of the
Mediterranean — he feels
duty-bound to keep up with
the intifada and inflation by
listening to hourly Voice of
Israel newscasts and by pur-
suing several daily
newspapers.
There were also newscasts
and newspapers in the pic-
turesque Western European
villages where my wife and I
have just spent a couple of
weeks, but we felt free to ig-
nore them, particularly since,
being in French and Flemish,
we couldn't understand their
reports anyway.
Everywhere, we en-
countered swarms of Euro-
pean vacationers, for whom it
is almost a sin to work in
August. And it is far easier
for them than it is for us to go
from country to country. After
all, most can reach two
neighboring lands with one
tankful of gas.
No less important, borders
are virtually meaningless to
Europeans. They don't need
visas to move across the Con-
tinent and, indeed, border
guards in Western Europe
will ordinarily wave on pass-
ing vehicles without bother-
ing to check the travel
documents of the passengers
inside.
Unlike our experience on
previous overseas vacations,
we failed to encounter any
criticism of Israel for its treat-
ment of the Arabs. This pro-
bably has something to do
with the fact that Arabs, be
they terrorists in Beirut or
"guest workers" in Brussels,
are extremely unpopular in
Europe at the moment.
Far less visible are the
small number of "guest
workers" from Israel, most of
whom claim that their stay is
only temporary. Such was the
case with a B'nei Brak
Chasid whom we encountered
on a riverboat near Antwerp

and with a Jerusalemite we
found selling D-Day souvenirs
in a Normandy seaside
village. The latter, proud of
his background and service
record, has an enormous
Israeli paratrooper emblem at
the entrance to his shop.
The ex-paratrooper pumped
us for the latest news from
the Holy Land, as did a group
of students we met at a color-
ful Breton folk festival in
which they were par-
ticipating. They told us that
the residents of Brittany, be-
ing engaged in an uphill
struggle to reassert their
Celtic identity, are most in-

People who go
elsewhere to
vacation don't
deny the existence
of attractive
resorts in Israel
itself, but, they
argue, the only
way for an Israeli
"to get away from
it all" is to get
away from Israel.

terested in our own national
revival.
On the whole, however, we
found people much less
nationalistic than we
remembered them from the
past. Many, in fact, now
display a European Com-
munity emblem rather than
their own national colors on
the windshields of their cars.
Needless to say, we found no
such multinational wind-
shields on our return to the
Middle East. ❑

JCC Hosts
Island 'nip

The Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan
Detroit in conjunction with
Berkley Tours will host a fall
color trip to Mackinac Island
Oct. 4-6.
The trip will include round
trip motorcoach, ferry ride to
and from the island, two
nights accommodations at the
Lilac Tree Hotel, two "in-
suite" continental breakfasts,
one lunch at the Grand Hotel,
two dinners, Mackinac Island
carriage ride, shopping in
Mackinac City, taxes and bag-
gage handling.
For information, call
Marilyn Wolfe, 661-1000, Ext.
334.