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Cooking In Hebrew 2018-2019 for English speakers (2nd year) Montville NJ

Category : Blog

You are invited to join us for the second year of “Cooking In Hebrew” for English speakers. This unique workshop, sponsored by the World Zionist Organization, will be led by Hadas Toren. Hadas Toren is a personal trainer, health coach and nutrition specialist who loves cooking, baking, entertaining and the Jewish holidays. Hadas Believes in […]

Sunday, March 10th, 2019

‘Kosher’ Nostra: Jewish Gangsters and the Lower East Side: A Walking Tour

Category : Events & Festivals

Arnold Rothstein, Meir Lansky and Bugsy Siegel were all notorious gangsters whose criminal activities extended to Atlantic City, Miami, Cuba and Las Vegas, but their stories began on the Lower East Side of New York. We will examine where these leaders of the Jewish underworld began their nefarious activities. Along the way we will analyze […]

Sunday, March 10th, 2019

Jewish History in Jamaica Comes Alive!

Category : Latest Destination

Jews in Jamaica have a long and colorful history, but not enough people know about it. As the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) recently reported in an article by Paul Foer, many of the Jews who live in Jamaica may be descendants of Sephardic Jews who escaped Europe in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition. The […]

Sunday, March 10th, 2019

Israeli airlines to launch direct flights to Goa and Kochi

Category : Travel Services

Israel’s Arkia Airlines will introduce direct flights to two Indian cities—Goa and Kochi, considered “dream destinations” by many Jews in this country, tapping the huge tourism potential between India and Israel. Arkia will operate the new flights from September 2019, company officials said. “Arkia will operate the new flights from September 2019 onward using recently […]

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Kosher Bed & Breakfast in Bangor, Maine, Fills a Niche

Category : Featured Hotel

Serving visitors and the local community in the central part of the state New Yorkers Laurie Tobias-Cohen and her husband, Yosef Cohen, fondly recall a memorable vacation weekend in Bangor, Maine. Thanks to Chabad of Bangor, established two years ago by Rabbi Chaim and Esther Wilansky, they didn’t have to rush home for Shabbat during their week-long trip, which also took them to […]

Sunday, February 24th, 2019

Tel Aviv’s most unlikely nightlife hot spot

Category : Featured Dining

One of Tel Aviv’s hippest nightlife spots has evolved in the shadows of the Great Synagogue, mixing divine and delicious in the most Israeli of ways. In true Tel Avivian style, the city’s Great Synagogue is not only a place of worship but also the nucleus of one of the hippest nightlife areas around. The […]

Wednesday, February 20th, 2019

Why Israel Travelers are in love with Jamaica? A tourism trend developing

Category : Travel Services

Jamaica’s singer, Anthony B took Israel by storm when he and a host of other musicians recently celebrated the life of reggae icon Bob Marley! He wore a necklace bearing the Hebrew word “chai,” which means life. Keith Blair, better known by the stage name Anthony B, is a Jamaican deejay and member of the Rastafari movement. […]

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019

TOURISM: 230 Israel Tourists Jet In For A Three-Day Visit

Category : Blog

Commenting on the trip, Ms. Tali Yativ, the organizer and team leader of the group said that this was a first of a kind tour for the group. The Uganda Tourism Board has today received a group of 230 Israeli nationals who are in the country for a 3 day tour of Uganda. The tourists […]

Monday, February 18th, 2019

Tel Aviv’s Norman Hotel Is Voted Best World’s Best Boutique Hotel

Category : Featured Hotel

Luxury American tourism magazine Jetsetter has just named the world’s best boutique hotel, and it’s none other than the stunning Norman Tel Aviv. “The term ’boutique hotel’ can be applied to everything from major chains’ brand extensions to indie sleeps one step removed from B&B status, but Tel Aviv’s smart, stylish Norman is the real […]

Friday, February 15th, 2019

The American pioneers who tried to take Tel Aviv by storm

Category : Blog

For old-fashioned New England architecture, look no further than Tel Aviv’s American Colony, with its tales of pilgrimage, disease and broken dreams. “Pilgrimage” isn’t the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Tel Aviv. But for a few brave Americans back in 1866, it certainly was. They were 157 men, women and children, […]

Friday, February 15th, 2019