For seven days and nights, we cruised along the Rhine ... cities; enjoying the views from the floor-to-ceiling windows in our staterooms and the lounge; spotting vineyards and castles along the ...

It meant my wife Lois and I could sit sipping a glass of very decent German white wine and watch the world go by on our cruise down the Rhine ... city of Basel. The Rhine really is a magical river.

The three Rhine River cities were home to some of the earliest Jewish settlements north of the Alps and are considered the cradle of Ashkenazic Jewry, a diaspora population that coalesced in ...