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Trips, Tips, Tours
For Jewish Travelers

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There will be art on display, music
and dancing.
Construction is under way for the
$11.5 million expansion of the La
here are many attractions
Jolla Jewish Community Center. The
for the Jewish traveler in
little town north of San Diego will
the coming months. Wher-
have a JCC with an art gallery, music
ever you may be on vaca-
room, 550-seat theater, cafe, catering
tion, from the East to the West in the
kitchen and a greatly enlarged sports
United States or in Israel, you will
and
fitness center.
find some event to capture your
Events
planned to Celebrate Israel's
interest. Many are related to Israel-at-
50th
anniversary
in that country
50 birthday celebrations.
include a tribute to pioneer cities in
San Antonio's huge Institute of
Dimona, Israel, on June 18. A
Texan Cultures recently doubled the
Hebrew song festival will take place
display area devoted to the Lone
in Arad n June 30. On July 14, there
Star State's Jewish history of yester-
will
be a state ceremony at
day and today. The exhibit covers
Jerusalem's
Mt. Herzl in honor of
the early settlers, Jews and the
Theodor
Herzl.
A state ceremony on
Alamo, the Neiman-Marcus story
July 29 for Ze-ev Jabotinsky will be
and the current community. Bring a
held at Mt. Herzl. Frcim Aug. 3-31,
camera; flash photos are permitted
there will be a major display of
in the institute.
Israel's
Photo by Lou Lachter
New York's
achieve-
Jewish muse-
ments at the
urn has a
exhibition
major exhibi-
grounds in
tion of over 50
Tel
Aviv. A
works by the
five-day
French painter
music and
, Chaim Sou-
poetry festi-
tine. The show
val will be
runs until.
held at 14
Aug. 16.
sites around
Another artist,
the shores of
George Segal,
the Sea of
is featured by
An
exhibit
in
the
San
Antonio
Galilee from
the museum in
Institute
of
Texan
Cultures.
Aug.
6-10.
an extensive
An interna-
retrospective of
tional opera concert will take place
his sculpture, paintings and drawings.
on Aug. 27 in Ganei Yehoshua Park
The show closes on Oct. 4.
in Tel Aviv. From Nov. 16-19, the
When next in Florida, visit the
General
Assembly of Jewish Federa-
new Tampa Bay Holocaust Memorial
tions
will
hold its first-ever annual
Museum and Education Center, 5th
meeting in Israel. Li
St. S., St. Petersburg. One of the
exhibits in the museum is Boxcar
#1130695-5, one of only three actual
Nazi-era boxcars on display in the
U.S.
In Los Angeles, the Skirball Cul-
The Hy Rosenberg senior bowling
tural Center has three new shows.
league is looking for men and
One is called "Israel Through Ameri-
women to bowl on Wednesday
can Eyes: A Century of Pho-
tographs," open until Jan. 3, 1999.
mornings.
The league kicks off on Sept. 2 at
The second exhibit is "Truman and
Luxury Lanes, one mile east of
Israel," open until Aug. 30. Third is a
Woodward on Nine Mile Road. For
display of work by Israeli silversmith
more information, call Len Greenhut
Moshe Zabari, which closes Jan. 3,
at (248) 353-1272.
1999.
The Jewish Women International
San Francisco's Jewish Museum is
Bowling
Association of Metropolitan
celebrating Israel's 50th anniversary
Detroit also has openings for the
with a show of 50 objects. The pieces
upcoming season's morning, after-
are all Israeli art from Bay Area col-
noon and evening leagues.
lections. The City by the Bay will
For more information, call Car-
have a big Sukkot celebration Oct. 11
olyn Fine at (248) 932-1077.
on Sacramento and Lake streets.

LEWIS ERIC LACHTER
Special to The Jewish News

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