Inaugurated Thursday, the richly renovated synagogue compound - a WWII deportation point for Jews sent to their deaths - is now a lively multipurpose Jewish cultural center
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A cabin aboard the River Voyager 5, which will sail two kosher cruises for the American market next year. Photo Credit: IWorld of Travel/Gordon Cruises
The luxury tour operator iWorld of Travel and two Israeli companies will launch a quartet of kosher river cruises next year.
Two of the 2022 sailings will be promoted to the Israeli market in May on the Danube and the Rhone, and the other two, targeting American cruisers, will sail the Danube between Budapest and Passau, Germany, in June and July.
The sailings will compete with Kosher River Cruises, which runs a series of full-ship kosher cruises in Europe, on the Mekong and on the Amazon.
Budapest-based Matyas Kiraly has amassed 14k followers in his travels to over 100 ruined cemeteries and synagogues, which he documents in an homage to a once-flourishing community