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spiritual significance
of:Jerusalem.

Cost (includes lunch): $15.00
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CRUISING page 62

While there is no kosher
restaurant in Singapore, there
are several Indian and Chinese
vegetarian restaurants recom-
mended by Maghain Aboth's
president, Jacob Ballas. The syn-
agogue itself is the venue of a
kosher luncheon served every
Saturday after the Sabbath ser-
vices. The address is 24 Water-
loo St.; tel., 336-0692.
Bangkok is a city of 10 million,
with a permanent Jewish popu-
lation of about 300. Oddly
enough, there are two separate
congregations. The "establish-
ment" synagogue and communi-
ty center, Beth Elisheva, where
services are held only for the ma-
jor holidays. Beth Elisheva is at
121 Soi Sai, Nam Tip 2 (Soi 22),
Sukhumvit Rd.; tel., 258-2195.
President is Bangkok-born Mic-
ahel Gerson, member of one of
the first Jewish families to settle
in Bangkok, at the turn of the
century.
A more recently established
congregation is Even Chen,
which provides daily services,
morning and evenings, and sup-
ports a kosher restaurant —
mainly for American, European
and Israeli businessmen of Iran-
ian origin. Bangkok is an impor-
tant center for gems and precious
metals.
I participated in a morning ser-
vice at Even Chen, and nowhere
have I ever experienced such de-
votion and fervor as manifested
in the small sanctuary there. The
congregants were (and are) prin-
cipally from the city of Meshed,
where the entire Jewish com-
munity had been forcibly con-
verted to Islam and had
continued Jewish worship ever
since — in secret. Now emigrants
from Meshed and liberated from
Islamic restriction, the Iranian
Jews, who make numerous busi-
ness trips to Bangkok through-
out the year, support a
synagogue, as well as a kosher
restaurant upstairs.
Lubavich Rabbi Yosef Haim
Cantor, a native of Monsey, N.Y.,
conducts daily services. Syna-
gogue and restaurant are in the
Bossotel Inn, 42/1 New Rd., no
more than 200 paces from the
Shangri-La Hotel. The hotel it-
self is now rated as No. 1 in the
world, and the Even Chen restau-
rant must be, as Marco Polo's ob-
servant passengers might agree,
the No. 1 kosher restaurant of the
entire Orient. Telephone: 235-
8001. Salim Eubani, president of
the congregation, is a genial
source of information: 234-5893
(office), 318-1577 (home).
Marco Polo passengers are
making inquiries about a kosher
cruise of Antarctica, one of the
vessel's future destinations.
There is no doubt about kashruth
aboard ship; about a Jewish his-
tory and presence at the South
Pole, there is no guarantee. Call
Lotus travel for further details:
(212) 267-5414.