Conic Celebrate Celebrate Israel's 50th Year With Us: No One Does It. Better! 4V )::" • • ' sA• INA KIW—A • • Travel Kosher In Kenya: An Unsusal Tour GABRIEL LEVENSON Special to The Jewish News T , . rVkleat, , Wendy Morse leads F[ Ai' dances as ire cross the Sea of Galilee! Award Winning Tours • Bar/Bat Mitzvah & Family Tours June 24 - July 22 August 5 - December 21 Celebrant is TOTALLY FREE! • Customized Tours Available Year Round • Adults Only (11 Departure Dates) March through November • 2nd Time Around Tours Ideal for REPEATERS ELIVAL/11.2- Other Destinations 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 `' pop top" roofs for picture-taking, are under the supervision of experienced safari guides. Every participant in the tour is assured a window seat, and there are two game drives on most - • The Jewels of South America • Wonderful Scandinavia • Historic Eastern Europe • The Best of Italy • London, Paris, Brugge & Amsterdam • Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco • Discovering England, Wales, Ireland • Awesome Greece & Turkey • Heart of the Canadian Rockies 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 MARGARET MORSE TOURS 954-458-2021 Call Toll Free 1-800-327-3191 14, kr Visit our website http://www.margaretmorsetours.com NORTHWEST Far East Specials! To take advantage of these and other specials, call or visit AAA Travel Agency. 1111N6KOK Round-trip air & 4 nts. fr. V6911 The Royal River Hotel May 1 June 30, 1998 (other dates/hotel slightly higher) Round-trip airport/hotel transfers. Airport welcome by English speaking destination representative. Full American breakfast daily. Half-day city sightseeing tour to three famous temples. Hotel service charges included. Round-trip air & 4 nts. fr. Hotel Jinglun or Grand View Garden Hotel $799 May 1 - June 30, 1998 (other dates/hotel slightly higher) Round-trip airport/hotel transfers. Airport welcome by Engli - sh speaking destination representative. Full American breakfast daily. Half-day city sightseeing tour. Full-day Great Wall and Ming Tombs with lunch. Hotel service charges included. Prices are per person, based on double occupancy and round-trip coach air transportation via connection. direct, and nonstop service between Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Tri City airports on Northwest Airlines. 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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-