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Alaska
HAL Oosterdam
July 25, 2010

Best of the Mediterranean

HAL Noordam
July 26, 2010

Canada/New England
Celebrity Summit
August 1, 2010

Awesome Alaska
Celebrity Mercury
August 1, 2010

Baltic
Costa Deliziosa
August 8, 2010

Bermuda
Celebrity Summit
August 8, 2010

Greek Isles
Costa Fortuna
August 9, 2010

Iberian Holiday

Crystal Serenity
November 22, 2010

Eastern Caribbean
NCL Pearl
December 26, 2010

Western Caribbean
NCL Pearl
January 16, 2011

Eastern Caribbean
Celebrity Solstice
January 23, 2011
 
Glatt Kosher Cruise
7-Night Baltic Capitals & Russia
Sold Out
August 8, 2010

Scholar in Residence: Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin
Cantor Yaakov Motzen

CME Medical Symposium Available on This Cruise

Costa Deliziosa
 
The Glatt Kosher Cruise adventure of a lifetime. Expect the unexpected on this Glatt Kosher Mediterranean cruise. The only thing predictable about one of our Glatt Kosher, premier, cruises is exquisite service, exciting excursions and a magnificent transport through the last great wilderness. Sit back and enjoy the ultimate Glatt Kosher Cruise Vacation! The perfect solution for the Jewish traveler.

Cruise from the fairytale city of Copenhagen throughout the Baltic on this amazing Kosher cruise. Experience the grandeur of St. Petersburg and the hospitality of Stockholm and Finland on your Northern European holiday.
 
Bet Yoseph meat is available for this program. Please notify us at least 6 weeks in advance if you require Bet Yoseph.
 

Costa Deliziosa - Kosher Cruise

Costa Deliziosa August 2010  Kosher Cruise Map

Costa Deliziosa
August 8, 2010
Date Port Arrive Depart
Cruise Schedule
Sun.
Copenhagen, Denmark
 
7:00pm
Mon.
At Sea
   
Tue.
Tallinn, Estonia
2:00pm
7:00pm
Wed.
St. Petersburg, Russia
9:00am
11:59pm
Thu.
Helsinki, Finland
12:00pm
6:00pm
Fri.
Stockholm, Sweden
8:30am
5:00pm
Sat.
Shabbat At Sea
 
Sun.
Copenhagen, Denmark
9:00am
 
Itinerary subject to change
Ship's Registry: Italy
 
 

All This Is Included
  • Gorgeous State-of-the-Art 5-Star Ships
  • Gourmet Glatt Kosher, cholov yisroel & pas yisroel culinary cuisine prepared on board daily by 5-Star chefs
  • Under the strict supervision of the MGK (Maritime Glatt Kosher)
  • World-Renowned Cantor Yaakov Motzen
  • Scholar in Residence: Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin
  • Stimulating Jewish Entertainment and Lectures
  • Daily Minyanim, Daf Yomi, Shiurim
  • World Class Cruise Activities and Amenities, Luxury Spa, Casino, Shopping, Broadway Style Shows
 
 
CME Medical Symposium
The cost of the symposium is $250.00 in addition to the cost of the cruise.

Lectures will be conducted daily and when signed up for the symposium, attendance is mandatory.
The curriculum will showcase doctors at NYHQ and the topics will highlight recent developments in their respective specialties.

More details will be available soon.
 
 
 
 
Maritime Glatt Kosher Logo
 
Maritime Glatt Kosher MGK

The MGK is a conglomerate of various Rabbanim who all are either currently or have previously held the highest administrative positions in mainstream Kashrus organizations. Each Rav Hamachshir is responsible for hiring and training his own group of mashgichim who will support him in the supervision of that particular cruise. Our Head Mashgichim have all had cruise supervision experience, a critical element in insuring that the highest level of Kashrus be maintained. We also send a larger team of mashgichim per cruise, in comparison to other existing programs. Our programs are Glatt Kosher, Chalav Yisroel and Pas Yisroel.

 
Rabbi Aharon Chein has been associated with the Georgian Jewish Community since 1992. He was born in Oni, Georgia and grew up in Israel where he studied consecutively at the following institutions: Rabbi Yosef Caro elementary school, Yeshivat Hanegev, Yeshiva Ketanah, and Gedola. He completed his Rabbinical studies in the Kollel of Sderot in 1982.

In 1998 he received an invitation from Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to join him in Georgia to celebrate the 26th century of Jewish existence in the country. It was in that year that Rabbi Chein decided to form a new organization, Federation of Georgian Jews, dedicated to uniting all Georgian Jews. As a result, the Federation organized three historical projects in 2000: Rabbi Chein traveled to Georgia together with 18 volunteers from New York and Israel to make a central Hagadah on both nights of Passover with more than 600 people taking part in the events. Rabbi Chein spent many years working as a Shochet, a Kosher slaughterer and is considered an expert in Kosher Meat production. Rabbi Chein is also an expert mohel since 1980 as well as a sofer. In 1999, Rabbi Chein founded Strictly Kosher Organization and leads it presently. The highest standards of Kashrut are always observed.

With over 15 years of Cruise Ship and Resort Kosher Supervision Rabbi Miller is one of the most experienced Rav Hamachshirs in the Kosher Cruise industry. He has supervised kosher resort programs worldwide, in some of the most exotic and exclusive locations imaginable. Rabbi Miller has consistently provided the highest standard of uncompromising kosher service in venues as diverse as The Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, China, Hawaii, Europe, and throughout The United States. His resume includes both numerous National Kashrus organizations, corporate, and private clientele of the most strict and demanding standards.

Rabbi Leibel Miller-Rav Hamachshir
Carribbean and Mediterranean Cruises
Please feel free to contact Rabbi Miller directly for more information.
rabbileibel@yahoo.com
(954) 456-4696

Rabbi R. Banin of Venice
Tel: 011-393381011540

Rabbi Moishe Zahler has many years of experience as a Rav Hamachshir working for most of the mainstream Kashrus organizations. He has successfully overseen Passover programs both nationally and internationally. He recently supervised the Kashrus programs in Orlando and Sarasota under the ORB and together with his brother-in-law, Rabbi Manish Spitz supervised the Kashrus Passover program in Mexico City under the Magen David Kashruth. Rabbi Zahler has also supervised the kashrus on numerous Kosher cruise ship programs. Besides kashruth, he has extensive experience in the area of Eiruv construction and maintenance.

Rabbi Manish Spitz has worked for over 25 years in the kashruth field. He works for various national kashruth organizations and local Vadds in Florida. He previously worked for the city – state kashruth enforcement. He was the Rav and Bal Mascher for many years for the Crown Hotel and San Soucci Hotel of Miami Beach. He also gave the Daf Yomi shiur. Rabbi Spitz has trained many mashgichim and given lectures on kashruth, including a recent seminar in Yerusalaim on how to kasher the house for Passover. Rabbi Spitz has been the Bal Mascher on many cruises.

Australian born , Rabbi Ruvi New is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad of East Boca Raton, in Boca Raton Florida. He is a sought after speaker and a featured lecturer on Chabad.org. He is the publisher and editor of Inside Out Magazine, and an accomplished singer/songwiter.

Rabbi Simpser has many years of experience working in the kosher industry on behalf of many worldwide kosher supervisory agencies, such as the CRC (Chicago Rabbinical Council), the O.U. (Orthodox Union), the O.R.B. (Florida), and the Star –K. He was the Founding Kashrus Director for MGK- Maritime Glatt Kosher and was responsible for staff (Mashgiach) training and overseeing kosher production on cruise ships that meet the highest Glatt Kosher standards. Rabbi Simpser has wide-range experience in hotel kashrut, having overseen Pesach food production at many hotels for over a decade.

He is also the Executive Director, Kashrus, of Kosher Organics. www.kosherorganics.com

Rabbi Simpser founded the Community Kollel of Des Moines in 1999 and now runs a Jewish Outreach Program in Minneapolis, Aish-Minnessota. He has been involved in kiruv and adult education for over 20 years.

 
 
Scholar in Residence
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin

A distinguished communal Rabbi for over 35 years, Rabbi Riskin continues to change the face of modern Orthodox Jewry in Israel and the Diaspora. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rabbi Riskin graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1960, where he majored in Greek, Latin and English literatures. He received his Smicha (rabbinical ordination) from the eminent Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Rabbi Riskin holds a Master's Degree in Jewish History and was awarded his PhD from New York University's department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature.

 

As a young rabbinical graduate, Rabbi Riskin became the founding rabbi of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, internationally renowned for its outreach to the entire Jewish community, as well as for its educational and social action programs. He became a major spokesperson for Modern Orthodoxy by pioneering the first women's Advanced Talmud Study program (Kollelet) and the first synagogue service conducted for women by women in the early 70's.

In 1983, Rabbi Riskin left his thriving career in Manhattan and pioneered the city of Efrat in Israel's West Bank. Beginning as a small settlement, Efrat now numbers over 11,000 people with 28 synagogues, and is a thriving community in the Gush Etzion bloc.

With hard work, determination, vision and love of the Jewish people and the land of Israel Rabbi Riskin founded the Ohr Torah High Schools for young men and women. Over the past two decades it has developed into an important network of high schools, colleges, graduate programs, a yeshiva, programs in Russia and Great Britain, a rabbinical seminary, a women's college of advanced Torah studies and a school for women advocates. Not content with merely educating students, each year scores of rabbis and teachers are sent to North and South America, England, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Ohr Torah Stone Colleges and Graduate Programs educate over 3,000 students each year from Israel, the U.S., England, Canada, Australia and South Africa.

Rabbi Riskin speaks in communities all over world. His innovative and creative ideology of an authentic Halachic Judaism that is inclusive of every Jew and is exquisitely sensitive to universal human concerns has made him an outstanding figure in the modern Orthodox world. He is the author of five books, "Torah Lights, Exodus Defines the Birth of a Nation", "Women and Jewish Divorce" , "The New Passover Haggadah", AAround The Family Table@, and ATorah Lights, Genesis Confronts Life, Love and Family", scores of articles and monographs on Judaism and contemporary issues, as well as a weekly column which is syndicated worldwide. Given Rabbi Riskin's illustrious career as rabbi and educator, city and institution builder, Rosh Yeshiva and public speaker, author and activist, he has been chronicled in major newspapers, magazines, and on TV and radio. He was described in a New York Times magazine feature article as, "teacher who cares... a charismatic speaker and widely respected Talmudic scholar: Rabbi Riskin sees as his major mission the preparation of a new generation of religious leaders, rooted in Judaism and secular learning, for Israel and the entire Jewish world."

Rabbi Riskin has been married to Victoria since 1963; they have four married children and thirteen grandchildren all living in Efrat.

 
 
 

Category
Description
Price
USD
SU*
Samsara Wellness Suite Limited Availability
$6,250
SB*
Samsara Wellness Stateroom with Verandah Limited Availability
$5,690
GS
Grand Suite Limited Availability
$6,440
PS
Panorama Suite Limited Availability
$5,930
S
Suite with Verandah Sold Out
$5,610
MS
Mini Suite
$5,200
B8
Ocean-view with Verandah Sold Out
$4,380
B7
Ocean-view with Verandah
$4,260
B6
Ocean-view with Verandah
$4,210
B5
Ocean-view with Verandah

$4,140

B4
Ocean-view with Verandah Sold Out
$4,090
B3
Ocean-view with Verandah Sold Out
$4,020
B2
Ocean-view with Verandah
$3,950
B1
Ocean-view with Verandah
$3,850
E2
Ocean-view Stateroom Sold Out
$3,530
E1
Ocean-view Stateroom (Obstructed View) Sold Out
$3,400
I4
Inside Stateroom
$3,200
I3
Inside Stateroom Sold Out
$3,080
I2
Inside Stateroom Sold Out
$3,000
I1
Inside Stateroom Sold Out
$2,950
Airfare, transfers, shore excursions and gratuities not included.
 
  • All rates are per person based on Double Occupancy.
  • Rates are subject to change without notice.
  • $1000 deposit due at time of booking.
  • Payment in full is due 90 days before sailing.
  • Single rate in all non-suite categories is 170%
  • 3rd and 4th person in cabin, upper berth (all categories): $1,800 (adult or child)
  • Travel insurance is strongly recommended.
  • These rates do not include taxes and port charges of $183.79
 
* Cabins and Suites are located within the Spa Area.
Wellness Cabins or Suites with total comfort and exclusive accessories, a Welcome Ceremony with fitness lessons, three treatments of your choice.
 
909-984-2761
Toll Free (USA Only) 800-893-5617
CST 2012669-10
California Department of Insurance License Number: 0B45777
Last updated: July 23, 2010

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