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VOLUME 69
NUMBER 18
MAY 2,1991
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DEVOTED ^TO   AMERICAN   ANO   JEWISH ,1DEAL"~S
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honor Rabbi Stavsky
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'Annie Get Your Gun'
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Torah Academy p^aris
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Zfeey Segal to lecture
at Capital University
Plans for Passport '91
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Students raise funds
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In The Chronicle
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Community 5-7
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FrontPage 2,3
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Hew Generation 14
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THE JEWISH TRAVELER
Marseilles — The French port city
with a Jewish flavor
By Ruth Rovner
Down at the Old Port in
Marseilles, the morning fish
market draws a large crowd.
Fisherman deftly weigh, slice
and wrap the fresh-caught fish
for their customers, while
tourists \vatch the boisterous
activity, their cameras clicking.
Others wander over to the
massive vessel Neptune, built
as the stage set for the film Pirates and now docked at the
colorful Old Port. And still otlK
ers simply enjoy the sight of
the sparkling water and the
hills in the distance.
It's not surprising that most
tourists to Marseilles are
drawn immediately and often
to the colorful Old Port.
The city's identity and its
distinctive appeal all center
on its role as a Mediterannean
port city. Greeks and Romans
fought over it because of its
strategic location. Invaders
sacked it. And now, modern
sailors, fishermen, yachtsmen, tourists and residents —
many from North Africa—all
co-exist in France's second
largest city and its premier
port
Of special interest to the
Jewish traveler is the way this
robust port city has served as
an important gateway for
Jews. Since 1962, when Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco
gained independence from
France, thousands of French-
speaking Jews from North Africa headed for the great port
of Marseilles.
They came in such numbers
that Marseilles is now the second largest Jewish community in France and the third
largest in all of Western Europe, after London and Paris.
For the Jewish traveler, the
city provides the chance to
visit a port city with panoramic views that also has a dis
tinctive Jewish flavor. A sister
city to Haifa, Marseilles has 23
synagogues, a Jewish day
school and five kosher restaurants. There's a Jewish radio
station, a Jewish newspaper
published six times a year, a
full-facility Jewish community center — and a genuine enthusiasm of North African
Jews for their adopted city.
"We don't just like Marseilles. We love Marseilles.
It's a very special city," says
Marcel Drei, sitting in his office at the Jewish Community
Center not far from the center
of town.
see MARSEILLES pg. 9