Kosher Travel and Tours - About Us
E D D I E F R E U D M A N
N – meet the founder & president
Kosher Travel and Tours: Eddie Freudmann, your genial magic tour maker, was born in Belgium
and grew up in England. After graduating with honors from London's
famous Hasmonean Grammar School, Eddie started work in the travel
business in 1957. He succeeded in quickly establishing a reputation as
an innovator in the (then) novel field of kosher travel. Eddie made
Aliyah in 1977, bringing his creative kosher travel agency with him.
Through his keen eye for the all that is new and exciting in kosher
touring, and his uncompromising stance on personalized service and
maintaining the highest kashrut standards, Eddie has succeeded in putting
Eddie’s Travel in the forefront of the quality kosher travel industry.
E D D I E ’S T R A V E L – meet the company
Eddie’s Travel, based in Israel is one of the most respected
travel agencies servicing kosher travelers throughout the globe. Its
highly experienced, well-traveled, and exceptionally friendly staff are
dedicated to catering to the Kosher traveler’s needs with a particular
emphasis on the personal touch in customer service. For the discerning
observant Jewish traveler in search of world-class Kosher cuisine,
unparalleled personal service, and an enriching, in-depth, destination
oriented experience, Eddie’s Travel is the natural choice.
Eddie Freudmann has been a leader in the development of kosher travel
for almost half a century. The origins of Eddie’s Travel go back to the
London of the 1950's, a time when popular foreign travel was still in
its infancy and the kosher holiday industry virtually unknown. Eddie
played a key role in popularizing the idea of quality kosher travel by
expanding its range and quality beyond anything that had been known
before, including the opening up of the first ever kosher hotel on
Italy's Adriatic coast.
When Eddie moved to Israel over 25 years ago, he came with a firm
commitment to continue pushing forward the bounds of kosher travel’s
variety and quality. It was Eddie who pioneered the idea of Pesach
holidays for Jewish Anglos, bringing 400 people from around the world,
including Europe, the United States and Israel to specially koshered,
top quality hotels, on the shores of Israel's spectacularly beautiful
and historic Lake Kinneret.
In the early 1990's Eddie's creativeness found new expression with the
luxury cruises that have made Eddie’s Travel a household name among
kosher travelers seeking the ultimate in comfort, luxury and value.
One of the most memorable of Eddie's original kosher holiday ideas was
to cruise on the Orient Line's Marco Polo, with a separate kitchen,
specially selected chefs and mashgiachim providing a choice and quality
of cuisine never known before in the world of kosher cruising. Today,
Eddie's Travel’s cruises continue to set the standards in kashrut
quality, first-class accommodation and friendly service.
Tracking the history of kosher cruising, travel writer Gabe Levenson of the New York Jewish Week wrote in an article on June 6, 2003, that some 20 years ago, she led a kosher trip to Scandinavia where “Devout participants brought along their suitcases bulging with the usual tinned tuna, biscuits, dishes, utensils, linen napkins, the works. They supplemented their limited diet en route with a variety of fish cooked and served in tin foil.”
She adds, “most cruise ships … had available a variety of frozen kosher foods prepared in microwave ovens and served still in its seal.”
All that changed with the advent of the major breakthrough in deluxe kosher cruising - initiated, arranged and perfectly & personally implemented by Eddie Freudmann on the Orient Lines’ deluxe Marco Polo cruise ship - in a style, luxury and at value previously unavailable to the discerning kosher traveler.
In the independent words of travel writer, Gabe Levenson:
"Orient Lines [Eddie Freudmann] took the next step, dedicating one of its galleys on the Marco Polo to preparing fresh kosher dishes, establishing one dining room for the observant, setting the tables with newly unpacked dishes, silverware, glassware, instructing a special staff of waiters, engaging a team of mashgiachs and turning out, in short, deluxe meals and service of the highest quality."
Eddie's tremendous efforts in providing the greatest kosher cruising experiences are paralleled in his groundbreaking land tours, taking tourists to places they never dreamed it was possible to visit while keeping to the same kashrut standards they maintain in their homes. Who would have thought of strictly kosher safaris through the most breathtaking African game reserves, and who could imagine kashrut-observant tourists enjoying the rich historical and cultural treasures of China? Not only was Eddie’s Travel the innovator of Kosher touring in China, but it was also the first to organize a Kosher cruise along Russia’s famous Volga River as well the pioneer of countless other land breaking Kosher holiday milestones. Although other travel agents follow suite on Eddie’s new Kosher destination ideas, none of them can reproduce his distinctive style of customer care and quality program, not to mention high kashrut standards.
Eddie’s Travel has already made so many people's Kosher travel dreams into a reality - we can certainly do the same for you!