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COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

Finally, A Cruise That Really
`Offers Something For Everyone'

ISRAEL and...

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Tourism Hits All-T

verybody, it seems,
is heading to Israel.
More than 1.8 mil-
lion visitors went to
Israel in 1992, 18 percent
above the previous record
year of 1987.
Reports for this year
also are good, with tour-
ism in the first three
months of 1993 running
10 percent higher than in
1992, with an expected
total for the year of more
than 2 million visitors.
A major factor in the
growth of Israeli tourism
has been the increasing

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importance of Christian

tourists, according to
Minister of Tourism Uzi
Baram:.He said the per-
centage of Christian visi-
tors among all tourists to
Israel rose from 25 per-
cent in 1991 to 30 percent
last year
Meanwhile, El Al Israel
Airlines has placed an
order for two new Boeing
747-400s, the latest
model, to be placed in
service next year on the
U.S.-Israel route. The
planes cost $135 million
each.

he Second American
Conference on
Angels is looking for
a little divine help from
the Jewish community.
The conference, which
will explore how interac-
tions with angels can
improve cultural, individ-
ual and global life, wants
a Jewish• speaker with an
expertise in the field.
The three-day confer-
ence will begin June 11 in
Boston. It is sponsored by
Tapestry, a nondenomina-
tional organization that
provides information on
angels and is headed by
artist and "angelogist"
Karyn Martin-Kuri.
Ms. Martin-Kuri be-
lieves strongly in the
healing power of angels
and that each individual
has a guardian angel.
"They are assigned to us
prior to our birth and they
are with us continuously,
without easing, through-
out our whole life," she
says. "They are with us at

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out the year, including
kay, everybody, all
Mediterranean cuisine
together now, let's
night for Yom Yerus-
sing!
halayim (May 19), a mur-
"Love, exciting and new,
der-mystery cruise June
come aboard, we're expect-
16, and Italian night June
ing you. The Love Boat,
23.
soon will be making
The man who started it
another run, the Love
all is Bruce Kessler, a
Boat, promises something
New York native who is 32
for everyone ..." (Isn't it
and single. The idea for
wonderful to relive those
the Glatt
intellectually
YACHT
Yacht came
stimulating
while he was
sitcoms of
working for a
your youth?)
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cruise line
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offer kosher
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meals.
ed for a
to
wanted
chance to go
the
expose
on a cruise
kosher com-
yourself. But
munity to
how could you,
something dif-
when not a
ferent, some-
one offered
thing special,
kosher food?
something
Welcome
memorable, be
aboard the
it a romantic
Glatt Yacht!
candlelight dinner for two
The Brooklyn-based
or a major simchah," he
Glatt Yacht offers a three-
said.
hour cruise that sails the
The Glatt Yacht actual-
Hudson River starting
ly consists of seven ves-
near the financial district,
sels, from the Cabaret
passing the Statue of
(which can accommodate
Liberty and ending in
120 persons) to the New
Midtown. Dinners feature
Yorker, which holds 2,000.
hors d'oeuvres, salad, an
The dinner cruise costs
entree of beef, fowl or fish,
$67.50 a person, or $135 a
and best of all, plenty of
couple, excluding bever-
desserts. Brunch cruises
ages and gratuity. Group
also are available.
rates are available. For
The Glatt Yacht dinner
information, contact the
cruises sail Tuesday,
Glatt Yacht at 210 South
Wednesday and Sunday,
1st St., Brooklyn, NY
except on Jewish holidays
11211, or call (212) 869-
and fast days. Special pro-
5400.
grams are held through-

Where Angels Don't Fear To Tread

LAKE
MICHIGAN

Did You Know
This About Yitz?

mong the supporters
of Israel's Bnai Zion
Medical Center is
none other than the prime
minister himself, Yitzhak
Rabin.
Okay, so prominent fig-
ures always want to help
out worthy causes. Well,
the story of how Mr. Rabin
came to be an advocate for
Bnai Zion is a little. differ-
ent. He writes in a recent
fund-raising letter for the
hospital:
"Years ago when I was
in the Palmach, I was on a
reconnaissance mission of
one of the British forts
that was built to fight ille-
gal immigration. The
Palmach and the Haganah
decided to attack this
post. I had to go there dis-
guised as a worker for the
then-Palestine Electric Co.
"I was driving my bicy-
cle like crazy when I col-
lided with a truck. The
next thing I remember
after that was being treat-
ed in the Rothschild
Hospital in Haifa (today
Bnai Zion). One of the doc-
tors treated me and saved
my leg, even though it
became shorter by one
inch. Even so, I managed
to continue my military
service and qualified as a
parachutist all because of
the treatment from Bnai
Zion."

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our death and .our return
to the spiritual realms."
Judaism is replete with
stories of malachim (liter-
ally, "messengers," but
often translated as
"angels"), two of the most
famous of whom were the
mysterious creature who
wrestles with Jacob and

the being sent by God to
stop Abraham from sacri-
ficing Isaac.
Potential speakers, or
those wishing more infor-
mation about angels, may
contact Tapestry at P.O.
Box 3032, Waquoit, MA
02536, or call 1-800-
28ANGEL.

This Makes Sense

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f you can't start your
day without six choco-
late-covered dough-
nuts, but your doctor
Says cut down on the
calories and the thought
of whole-grain cereal
makes you want to put
your head under a truck,
why not just SMELL a
bag of Fritos instead?
Dr. Alan Hirsch of
Chicago's Smell and
Taste Treatment and
Research Foundation
recently conducted a test

on the effects of smell
and appetite using the
fragrance of Fritos corn
chips.
The findings show that
those who regularly
inhaled the fragrance
experienced a loss of
appetite, and shed '4.17
pounds in four weeks,
according to a report in
Family Circle magazine.
A second control group
received a placebo and
lost an average of 1..23
pounds.

Would Evita Believe It?

on't cry for the
Jewish community,
Argentina. This is
no time for tears!
The American Jewish
Committee recently con-
ducted the first-ever pub-
lic opinion survey to
examine attitudes toward
Jews in Argentina, with
the results showing "sur-
prisingly positive atti-
tudes."
According to the survey,
respondents see Jews as
enterprising, hard-work-
ing, devoted to family,

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peaceful and non-hostili-
ty-provoking.
Eight percent of those
interviewed object to hav-
ing Jews as neighbors,
while 88 percent support
the rights of Jews and
other religions to worship
freely.
And while 17 percent of
the respondents concurred
with the statement "Jews
have too much power and
influence in Argentina,"
the vast majority of
respondents disagreed.

