A Range of Exciting Destinations for 2014
ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 2014
Ethiopian Village near Bahar Dar
Following the success of our trips to Ethiopia last year, we are returning once again the experience this strange and exotic country. Jews first reached Ethiopia over two thousand years ago and have left their mark on many aspects of everyday. We will visit remote villages, meet far flung Jewish communities and encounter everyday life in one of the most fascinating countries in Africa.
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UKRAINE: ODESSA AND KIEV - JUNE 2014
Ukraine, at the heart of the Pale of Settlement, was the home to hundreds of thousands of Jews less than a century ago. Here, in the Carpathian Mountains, the Baal Shem Tov wandered for weeks seeking closeness to God – and through his followers established the Hassidic movement. In Odessa, a city of
rebels, young Jews came to create a new future of Jews in the Land of Israel – and gave birth to the Zionist movement. In Kiev, young Ukrainian Jews are establishing new communities and are working to create a Jewish future in the Ukraine. On this 7 day trip we will visit Odessa and learn about the roots of modern Zionism, Mezhbizh, birth place of the Baal Shem Tov, Uman – the burial place of Rebbi Nachman of Beslev, Berdichev – an important Jewish centre in the 19th and 20th centuries and Kiev. On the way we will visit many towns, villages and sthetls that were the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Second World War.
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rebels, young Jews came to create a new future of Jews in the Land of Israel – and gave birth to the Zionist movement. In Kiev, young Ukrainian Jews are establishing new communities and are working to create a Jewish future in the Ukraine. On this 7 day trip we will visit Odessa and learn about the roots of modern Zionism, Mezhbizh, birth place of the Baal Shem Tov, Uman – the burial place of Rebbi Nachman of Beslev, Berdichev – an important Jewish centre in the 19th and 20th centuries and Kiev. On the way we will visit many towns, villages and sthetls that were the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Second World War.
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TUNIS AND THE MAGICAL ISLAND OF DJERBA - LATE OCTOBER / EARLY NOVEMBER 2014
Tunisia sits strategically on the border between the eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean Sea. Jews have lived here for centuries: in Tunis – the capital, in the Holy City of Kairouan, which at one time was a centre of Torah learning, and on the remote Island of Djerba – which claims to have the oldest continually functioning synagogue in the world. These sites, and many more, will be included in our itinerary. For me, the most interesting part of the trip is the visit to Djerba. Djerba is an island in a remote corner of Tunisia, miles away from Tunis. To get there you travel across country, through cities and towns, small Berber villages and markets, including the village of Matmata – where people still live in caves! Then you reach Djerba you find
yourself on a street with Mezuzahs on doors, where you can speak Hebrew to the people, and there are Kosher shops!
The Jewish community in Djerba is one of the oldest in the world. It is also one of the few Jewish communities left which I would call an ‘organic’ Jewish community. This means that people live a traditional Jewish life relatively untouched by modernity. I usually find myself saying ‘people used to do this’, or ‘people used to follow that custom’ – but in Djerba – the community is still there – together with its synagogues, schools and Yeshivas. It is all quite remarkable.
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yourself on a street with Mezuzahs on doors, where you can speak Hebrew to the people, and there are Kosher shops!
The Jewish community in Djerba is one of the oldest in the world. It is also one of the few Jewish communities left which I would call an ‘organic’ Jewish community. This means that people live a traditional Jewish life relatively untouched by modernity. I usually find myself saying ‘people used to do this’, or ‘people used to follow that custom’ – but in Djerba – the community is still there – together with its synagogues, schools and Yeshivas. It is all quite remarkable.
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