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kasher stove and oven; unpack
new pots, pans, dishes, glasses,
silverware; thaw out frozen
meats which had been shipped
over from the United States; and
cook and bake both for Friday
night and for three meals on Sat-
urday.
Dinner that night was a qual-
ified success. The Filipino wait-
ers, who had never previously
served kosher food, performed
with some trepidation but no er-
ror. On the other hand, the chick-
en soup lacked a certain
maturity; the carrots (summoned
from a state of absolute frigidity)
were still a bit chewy; and the ap-
ple strudel somehow lacked the
authentic flakiness, which it
would have at subsequent meals.
In fact, after the difficult be-
ginning, Blass, Valier-Grossman
and company settled into a rou-
tine of kosher cooking for the rest
of the voyage which their guests
declared to be much better than
any airline frozen kosher foods,
certainly, and the equal of that
served at the best kosher restau-
rants anywhere.
The contingent of kosher pas-
sengers was seated in the cen-
ter of the ship dining room, in a
place of prominence, next to the
captain's table. That first Sab-
bath evening, they performed
their ablutions, made the motzi,
chanted the kiddush, ate,
benched and sang "Sholom Ale-
ichem" with joy and enthusiasm
... somewhat to the wonder and
admiration of the non-Jewish
passengers at the tables around
them, many of whom had never
before seen such a demonstration
of religiosity.
"It was a statement of equali-
ty, that observant Jews are first-
class citizens, not to be relegated
to the corner of a dining-room,
made to feel somehow 'strange'
Or 'apart,"' remarked Rabbi Mar-
vin Tokayer, who accompanied
the group as its spiritual mentor.
"We were not 'at the back of the
bus' — but 'right up at the front
of the bus,' the rabbi added.
During the course of the voy-
age, he would conduct the sever-
al daily services, Sabbath services
and Havdalah, and give talks on
the Marco Polo's ports-of-call-
which he had previously visited
as a navy chaplain in the Far
East and as rabbi of the Jewish
congregation in Tokyo.
Among the ports-of-call on this
journey were Singapore, where a
Sephardic Orthodox congrega-
tion, Maghain Aboth, has func-
tioned for more than 150 years;
Semarang, in Java, where there
had been a community of Russ-
ian Jewish refugees in the 1920s,
after the 1917 Russian Revolu-
tion, and Bangkok, where there
are not one but two congrega-
tions. Both the existing commu-
nities, in Singapore and Bangkok,
are worth noting.

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