(JTA) — A playground at a private beach club in Queens was targeted with anti-Semitic and racist graffiti. The playground at the Silver Gull was closed, the club announced on Friday, “due to the recent and increasing vandalism from within the club,” the New York Times reported Sunday. Among the graffiti, according to the report,…
A Palestinian man was fined more than $200 – or almost a month’s worth of wages – for going to an Israeli beach while dressed in underpants rather than a bathing suit. Hakam Habash, a middle-aged factory worker from Nablus, was slapped with the fine as he attempted to enter a beach in Netanya after…
Yesterday I told Teddy that today would be his day (actually it’s Adeena’s wedding day, so technically I suppose it’s hers). I asked how he wanted to spend it, and his emphatic choice was the beach. I’d heard about a gorgeous restaurant on the beach called Manta Ray, so I decided we’d have lunch and…
The mayor of Tel Aviv rushed to help the German travel blogger lift her luggage away from the incoming tide as she made her way into the city’s newest beachfront digs — a wooden lifeguard tower refurbished as a pop-up luxury suite. As part of an effort to market Israel as a winter tourist destination…
Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority is warning citizens to stay away from the shoreline near a power plant in Hadera, where around 150 sharks have gathered and attracted a bevy of thrill-seekers. “Encounters with sharks are uncontrollable and can endanger both the divers and the sharks,” the agency told the Algemeiner. “This means it is…
In Israel, where it is fair to say Muslims and Jews do not always agree, there is shared confusion and surprise at events across the Mediterranean: the push by French mayors to ban full-body swimsuits, or “burkinis,” on beaches. France’s highest administrative court ruled against the ban on Friday, but mayors in several beachfront towns…
Paris’ decision to celebrate Tel Aviv on Thursday in its annual beach-on-the-Seine festival has sparked controversy, with critics branding it “indecent” after the death of a baby in an arson attack in the West Bank. France has both the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in Europe, and flare-ups in the Middle East have often triggered…
An Orthodox synagogue was opened officially a few blocks from the iconic Ipanema Beach in Brazil. Some 1,200 people attended Sunday’s inauguration of the four-story, 440-seat synagogue in Rio de Janeiro named for Edmond Safra, the late Brazilian Jewish billionaire and philanthropist whose foundation funded much of the project. The 20,000-square foot building, which replaces…
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