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STEVEN R. KALT follows the footsteps of his mother,
Bee Kalt, who pioneered leading clients to Asia in the 1960's.
his family's tradition of selling
OCTOBER 1, 1996 "ORIENT ADVENTURE"
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DECEMBER 6, 1996 "SOUTH CHINA SEA ADVENTURE
aboard the Seaboum Pride
Escorted by Margot & Jerry Halperin
14 day cruise through Southeast Asia
SINGAPORE, THAILAND, VIETNAM & HONG KONG
For information call Steven or Manzot
2801 No Woodward Royal Oak. MI
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its grapes to the Carmel aggre-
gate by starting his own winery
10 years ago. It was a gamble,
trying to create Israel's first bou-
tique winery, he says. "Bou-
tique" is the buzz word for
limited production, top quality,
he explains.
Mr. Tishbi's gamble has paid
off. Presently, he produces more
than 500,000 bottles of quality
wines per year — still far from
Carmel's annual output of 27
million, but a catalyst, never-
theless, in the establishment of
similar wineries which cater to
a new generation of more so-
phisticated Israelis no longer
content with the traditional,
syrupy-sweet sacramental
wines of the past.
Sampling the Baron Cellar la-
bels, visitors can enjoy also a
taste of history, as Mr. Tishbi
himself regales them with the
chronicle of Zichron Ya'acov's
early years.
His own greatgrandfather,
Michael, came from Russia as a
Zionist pioneer to work in the
Zichron Ya'acov vineyards, sub-
sidized, like those at Rishon le-
Zion to the south, by the same
Rothschild. The baron had giv-
en the community its name —
"Memory of Jacob," in English
— as a tribute to his own father,
James de Rothschild.
James, who established the
French branch of the family,
was the youngest of the five sons
of Mayer Amschel Rothschild,
himself the founder and patri-
arch of the Rothschild dynasty.
It is approximately 100 miles
from Zichron to Mt. Meron, site
of the Har ("Mount") Meron
Winery. The route is north along
No. 4 highway through Haifa
and on to Akko, the walled city
of the Crusaders, then east on
No. 85, in the direction of Safed.
Baron Cellars, with a half
million bottles-per-year pro-
duction, ranks as a medium-size
winery; and Har Meron, with no
more than 15,000 bottles—all
sold to a single wholesaler—
ranks as one of Israel's smallest.
It is virtually a two-man op-
eration, and all the grapes in the
winery are hand-picked — a
guarantee of high quality, de-
clare the winemakers, sabras
Alex Bartan and Kobi Tuch.
They started their business in
1988, producing their wines in
a Jewish Agency caravan
parked on the front lawn of Mr.
Bartan's house.
Seven years later, Har Meron
is still in the caravan, no more
than a shed with a corrugated
roof, although output has dou-
bled hi that period. Unlike most
other Israeli wines, Har Meron's
cannot qualify for a kashrut li-
cense because Mr. Bartan and
Mr. Tuch can work in the win-
ery only on Fridays and Satur-
days. They earn their livelihoods
the other five days of the week,
Mr. Bartan as a mechanical en-
gineer and Mr. Tuch as a high
school teacher of science.
Another 20 miles east of Har
Meron, along No. 85, is the
small town of Quatzrim, on the
Golan Heights, site of the win-
ery of that name. It was found-
ed in 1983 by a group of four
kibbutzim and five moshavim
in that area and gathers its
grapes from vineyards in the
Upper Galilee and on the
Heights, where conditions are
similar to those in California's
Napa Valley.
The Golan Winery's brand
names and labels reflect both
the geography and the history
of the region. The premier wine
is "Yardon," a variation on "Jor-
dan"; and its label pictures an
oil lamp found in a recent dig
near the river.
Other brands are "Gamla"
and "Golan Heights" — for
Gamla was the name of an Is-
raelite fortress built on these
hills more than two millennia
ago; and the coin depicted on the
"Gamla" label is the reproduc-
tion of an authentic Roman coin
found in an archaeological ex-
cavation nearby. The artifacts
found on this site indicate that
Israelite vineyards had existed
on the Golan Heights at least
since the beginning of the Corn-
mon Era. El
School Blocks
Holocaust Denier
New York (JTA) — The Uni-
versity of Massachusetts has
taken steps to deny a prominent
Holocaust denier access to its
World Wide Web site, according
to the Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter.
Ernst Zundel, 57, a German-
born resident of Toronto, suc-
ceeded in circumventing a
German government effort to
block access to Internet sites
promoting racial hatred.
Mr. Zundel countered the
German government action this
month by enlisting the help of
Internet activists at 10 presti-
gious American universities.
The activists said they cooper-
ated mainly because they op-
pose any effort to regulate and
censor the Internet.
The Wiesenthal Center last
week commended the Universi-
ty of Massachusetts for order-
ing the graduate student who
posted the messages for Mr.
Zundel on the university's Web
site to remove them.
`The bottom line is that while
bigots may have the right to put
their ideas in cyberspace, institu-
tions of higher learning support-
ed by taxpayers and public grants
have no obligation to provide
them with access and legitimacy,"
said Rabbi Abraham Cooper; as-
sociate dean of the center. .