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September 22, 2005
"Festival of White Nights" | What could be more romantic than walking along rivers and canals when night is as bright as early evening?
ARZA World celebrates the history and heritage of the Jews of Russia and the Baltics by introducing 3 new tours to Russia and the Baltics.
ARZA World invites you to travel to Russia, what could be more romantic than walking along rivers and canals when night is as bright as early evening?
From late May to early July nights are bright in St. Petersburg, and the "Festival of White Nights" lasts from June 11 to July 2. "White Nights" are unique to St. Petersburg and northern nights have received much poetic acclaim. St. Petersburg is the world's only metropolis where such a phenomenon takes place every summer. Every year there are days when downtown St. Petersburg is full of people, even at night.
Click here for a detailed program of 9 day | Discover St. Petersburg and Moscow tour
The trips to Russia and the Baltics range in length from a 9 day-Russia tour to a 15 Russia and Baltics trip. The programs were prepared with the cooperation of the World Union for Progressive Judaism and they include guided tours of St. Petersburg and Moscow and meetings with reform leaders.
Leon Tolstoy wrote, "The Jew is everlasting as is eternity itself." The saga of Soviet Jewry corroborates that statement. Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch said in his keynote speech before the WUPJ convention in Moscow in July 2005 "The Jewish people have given to the world more than spiritual values and ennobling ideals. We have contributed the Jewish people itself, an enduring symbol of what Tolstoy describes as, "the emblem of eternity." What greater proof of the indestructibility of the Jewish people and the Jewish spirit than the restoration of Jewish religious, cultural and educational institutions in these lands."
Posted by ARZA World Team at 05:49 PM
