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Crystal Cruises is offering numerous optional Crystal Adventures in 2010 that focus on destinations’ Jewish heritage. The excursions enable you to absorb a region’s diverse spiritual culture, explore Judaic history in the cities of Jerusalem, Berlin, Odessa, Rome, St. Petersburg, and even unexpected places like Stockholm, Dublin, Mumbai and Montevideo.

Many options in Jerusalem explore the Jewish Quarter; the Western Wall, the holiest of Jewish sites; Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Authority, dedicated to the history of Jews during the Holocaust period; and other locations.

Additionally, Jewish tours in Berlin include visits to Sachsenhausen Concentration camp, a prototype for all the camps that followed, and the Jewish Old Quarter and the New Synagogue, laid in 1988, exactly 50 years after the “Night of Broken Glass.” In Dublin, there is the Irish Jewish Museum, formerly a synagogue, opened by President Chaim Herzog, Israel’s Irish former leader.

In Montevideo, Uruguay, guests can visit the Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues, as well as the Holocaust memorial and a glimpse into modern-day Jewish life. In Rome, the Jewish Ghetto, issued by anti-Semitic Pope Paul IV in 1555, was isolated by walls until 1870.