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From: The Jewish Week
Date: 19940317
Author:Gabe Levenson

Gabe Levenson
The Jewish Week
03-17-1994
TRAVEL: Off The Beaten Track.

GABE LEVENSON

TRAVEL WRITER

"Oworld, I cannot hold thee close enough!" wrote Edna St. Vincent Millay in the 1920s, closeted in a walk-up flat, smoking Havana cigars and gazing out her window at the Greenwich Village streetscape below.

Today's travelers can now embrace the globe at first hand, virtually with the speed of sound, encountering the wonders of nature, the artifacts of humankind and, especially, the places and people of a 4,000-year Jewish history.

Imaginative travel experts are developing itineraries to, in some ...

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