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Kosher In Kenya:
An Unsusal Tour
GABRIEL LEVENSON
Special to The Jewish News
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he vision of countless herds
of wildlife migrating across
a surreal landscape, corn-
bined with top-quality, glatt
kosher cuisine, are the ingredients for
an unusual adventure trip this summer
to Kenya.
Lotus Tours' "Kosher Safari in
Kenya" features the world-famed game
parks, lodges and resorts of East
Africa, including Masai Mara, consid-
ered the jewel of the Serengeti Plains
which stretch between Kenya and
Tanzania. Masai Mara is also the con-
tinent's largest sanctuary for the "big
five" of wildlife: the buffalo, elephant,
leopard, lion and rhinoceros.
State-of-the-art safari vehicles, with
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Jewish settlement in what was then
British East Africa began at the turn of
the century. At the Sixth Zionist
Congress, held in 1903, delegates
debated furiously the so-called
"Uganda Plan," a proposal from the
British government to establish an
autonomous Jewish homeland in the
territory. The offer came a few months
after the Kishinev pogrom, in which
49 Jews were killed, more than 500
seriously injured and thousands of
families left homeless. With the
pogrom occupying the minds of the
Congress delegates, Theodor Herzl,
heading the meetings, urged support
of the Uganda Plan as a tactical expe-
dient to provide sanctuary for the vic-
tims of Kishinev, without abandoning
his long-range goal of restoring Zion
to Eretz Israel.
He did not realize at the time that
the British offer was not as generous as
it appeared. Sleeping sickness had
killed more than 250,000 tribespeople
in the area. Colonial Secretary Joseph
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days of the program.
Featured lodgings include Sweet
Waters Tented Camp, a private game
reserve; Samburu Serena, one of a
chain of luxurious resorts in Kenya,
and the world-renowned Mount
Kenya Safari Club which was founded
by the late film star, William Holden.
The first Shabbat of the tour will
be spent at the Lake Elementeita
Resort, the base for Saturday walking
tours of the surrounding Rift Valley. A
second Shabbat will be spent in
Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, with the
opportunity to take part in Shabbat
services along with congregants of the
400-member Jewish community.
Chamberlain, author of the Plan,
hoped that Jewish money and Jewish
manpower would restore stability to
the demoralized and deteriorating
colony.
The Uganda proposal was eventual-
ly defeated. Hygienic conditions
improved in Nairobi, and a Jewish
community was formally organized
there, with the building of a syna-
gogue in 1913. The present syna-
gogue, in downtown Nairobi, was
dedicated in 1955. Two years later,
Israel Somen, president of the congre-
gation, was elected the city's mayor.
The present-day community is
composed of descendants of the origi-