{"id":22172,"date":"2023-07-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=22172"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T19:54:11","slug":"the-jewish-side-of-niagara-falls-is-booming-again-thanks-to-the-return-of-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/26\/the-jewish-side-of-niagara-falls-is-booming-again-thanks-to-the-return-of-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish side of Niagara Falls is booming again\u2014thanks to the return of tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecjn.ca\/news\/niagara-falls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian Jewish News<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Tourists, and especially Orthodox tourists, are flocking back to Niagara Falls this summer after a long COVID hiatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTourism is booming here. From our perspective, it\u2019s basically back to pre-COVID levels,\u201d said Rabbi Zalman Zaltzman in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rabbi Zaltzman runs the Chabad house in Niagara Falls, along with his wife Perla\u2014and summer is the busiest time for them. They provide three Shabbat meals every weekend, host a kosher restaurant in their welcome centre, run a minyan, handle large groups of visitors, assist with local emergencies involving Jewish people, and provide programming for the local community including running a day camp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Canadian Jewish News: Tourists, and especially Orthodox tourists, are flocking back to Niagara Falls this summer after a long COVID hiatus. \u201cTourism is booming here. From our perspective, it\u2019s basically back to pre-COVID levels,\u201d said Rabbi Zalman Zaltzman in an email. Rabbi Zaltzman runs the Chabad house in Niagara Falls, along with his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,52],"tags":[13505,13502,13500,13508,13509,41,13506,13503,13507,418,13504],"class_list":["post-22172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-chabad-house","tag-covid","tag-jewish","tag-kosher","tag-minyan","tag-niagara-falls","tag-perla-zaltzman","tag-rabbi","tag-shabbat","tag-tourism","tag-zalman-zaltzman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22173,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions\/22173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}