By Janis Fontaine
The Jewish High Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement — both take place in late September.
In Judaism, these are two of the most important holy days, and services featuring special pray
By Janis Fontaine
The year 2020.
It rolls off our tongues, the symbol of perfect visual acuity. So, a year with that moniker should be a great year, right?
We asked clergy members how they feel about 2020 and for their best advice for starting the
By Sallie James
The legal wrangling surrounding a fiercely contested proposal to build an orthodox synagogue and Israel museum near Boca Raton’s beach continues to rage nearly three years after the project was proposed.
A panel of three judges in Mia
By Steve Plunkett
The Jewish congregation that caused a stir when it received City Council approval to build a towering synagogue and an Israel museum on Palmetto Park Road east of the Intracoastal Waterway fears it may not get title to the land.
By Sallie James
It’s “game on” once more in the on-again, off-again legal wrangling surrounding a proposal to build an Orthodox synagogue and Israel museum east of the Intracoastal Waterway.
Local activists Gerald Gagliardi and Kathleen MacDoug
By Steve Plunkett
City officials erred in giving the Chabad of East Boca Raton permission to build a new synagogue and museum on Palmetto Park Road east of the Intracoastal Waterway, a three-judge panel of the county’s Circuit Court ruled.
City Counc
By Sallie James
The city has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that claims Boca Raton officials improperly created a special zoning classification to allow construction of a synagogue on the barrier island.
The court action is the late
Amara (l-r), Ari and David Kaiyalethe pose in the ground floor of the new home they are building in Boca Raton to be within walking distance of Chabad of East Boca Raton. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Margie Plunkett
David and Amara Kaiyalethe a
By C.B. Hanif
The Chabad of South Palm Beach’s new center in Manalapan’s Plaza Del Mar is just plain welcoming.
“We really did try to create that feel,” said Rabbi Leibel Stolik. “We wanted it to be an inviting, warm, welcoming atmosphere, so that peo
