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In fact, the tour, set for Jan.
16-25, is limited to 15 couples, to
"ensure congeniality and corn-
munication," Rabbi Kasowitz
says.
The price of the trip is $2,177
and includes all excursions, sight-
seeing, hotels, meals, receptions,
lectures and other activities with-
in Costa Rica. Participants are re-
sponsible for their own flights to
and from the country, but every ef-
fort will be made to obtain cheap-
er, group rates for air passage.
Rabbi Kasowitz is at 1517 Mc-
Carthy Rd., Eagan, MN 55121;
(612) 686-4455; fax, (612) 585-
4456.
Chabad House in San Jose is
open to all visitors, whether or
not they are Inward Bound tour
members. The address is APDO,
816 Centro Colon, San Jose; 011-
506-231-5745; fax, 506-232-0537.
The Jewish community is list-
ed as Centro Israelita de Costa
Rica, Calle 22 y 22; tel., 33-9222;
fax, 33-9321; Apartado Postal
1473-1000.
AJC has 8-day tours to Costa
Rica on Dec. 25, Jan. 21, Feb. 11,
March 17; a nine-day tour for
singles under 45 on Dec. 24.
Price for the 8-day is $1,875 ;
for the nine-day, $2,195. Includ-
ed are airfare between Miami
and San Jose, hotels, some meals,
sightseeing and other activities.
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Some members of the commu-
nity argued that only by remain-
ing Orthodox could Jewish
continuity be assured in Costa
Rica. Proponents of Conservative
Judaism, on the other hand, de-
clared that few members of the
community lived by the stan-
dards to which Rabbi Kasowitz
adheres in his own tour pro-
grams. The Conservative sup-
porters said that almost all
Jewish businessmen in San Jose
keep their shops open during the
Sabbath and even on Rosh
Hashanah.
The question of affiliation re-
mains unresolved, but Rabbi
Moshe Lefkowitz, the Orthodox
spritual leader of the mainstream
congregation, said that he wel-
comed further discussion which
would "further unite the com-
munity."
"It's very important that peo-
ple come together and say what
they think," Rabbi Lefkowitz
added. "When you talk you listen,
and when you listen you can do
things."
And these are precisely the
sentiments of Inward Bound, ac-
cording to Rabbi Kasowitz. There
would never be a compromise on
maintenance of the most strin-
gent standard of kashrut, but
participation is always open to
all Jews, whatever their beliefs.
He repeats that they are welcome
to join the Costa Rica tour and
that there would be "zero pres-
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Judaism On A
Small Island

GABRIEL LEVENSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

ewish communities spring
up in the most unexpected
places.
Like Bermuda, where an
organized congregation of some
100 souls is an accepted compo-
nent in an island-nation of almost
60,000 ... Bermuda, that one-
time bastion of British gentili-
ty—or gentileity, as we, with the
innocence and intolerance of
now-distant youth, imagined it
to be. There were no shades of in-
between then; we saw everything
simplistically, in stark black and
white.
The "black" was the under-
class of black domestics; the
"white" was the white, white-
flanneled faux aristocracy they
waited upon, with the posture of
deference inherited from the slav-
ery of less than 100 years earli-
er.
In our perception of Bermudan
society, Jews were outside that
hierarchy of color. We thought of
them as the occasional "trades-
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tronized but whom one never
knew socially or permitted to
play on one's tennis court, or to
join one's country club, or to meet
one's son or daughter.
Whatever the degree of valid-
ity in that youthful fantasy, the
Bermuda we visited last month
was an island of quite another
color, or colors, so far as one can
judge from a brief visit.
We rode the public buses, for
example, back and forth the 22-
mile length of the main island (no
bigger than Manhattan); and we
seemed always to be riding at 3
p.m., when the various public
schools en route were letting out
for the day, and bright-faced chil-
dren of all colors were boarding,
sitting together side-by-side,
chatting animatedly, friends.
It was a phenomenon of to-
getherness I have very rarely ex-
perienced in a lifetime of using
public transportation. Children.
Undivided. Of all we observed in
Bermuda, this was our first, and

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