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PESACH 2022: Leisure Time Tours offers the Pesach of a Lifetime

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Believe it or not, Pesach is just a few months away. If you are planning to go away for this year’s holiday, now is the perfect time to start looking into the various program options before they inevitably sell out. Leisure Time Tours has been running Pesach programs for over 60 years, and they are excited to offer 4 exciting locations for Pesach 2022 – Portofino (Italy), New Jersey, Florida, and Arizona.

Leisure Time Tours – Portofino, Italy

If you have been dreaming of visiting Italy’s beautiful coastline, but don’t like the idea of the area’s limited kosher options, Pesach in Portofino is for you. You’ll get the chance to enjoy everything that the region has to offer, while simultaneously being provided with gourmet kosher meals, minyanim, shiurim, and more. Hosted at the Imperiale Palace Hotel, the hotel itself is the utmost of Italian luxury. The grounds offer a sea-water pool, a beautiful park, and a luxury spa, and a variety of rooms and suites to accommodate any group size.

Rabbi Lau, current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and former Chief Rabbi of Israel will be a scholar-in-residence on the program. Rabbi Lau also authored Out of the Depths, a story of his miraculous Holocaust survival. Yossi Fachler is the programs’s other scholar-in-residence. Fachler is known for providing beautiful shabbat services throughout the U.K, and for presiding over high holiday services around the globe.

Over Chol Hamoed, day trips can be arranged to beautiful locales such as Genoa, Cinque Terre, and more.

For more information on LTT in Italy or to book your family’s Pesach vacation, call ☎️ 718-528-0700, or visit Leisure Time Tours online.


Leisure Time Tours – Long Branch, NJ

For those from the tri-state area who can’t quite miss a full week of work, but would love to attend a Pesach program, Pesach in Long Branch is the best of both worlds.

You’ll get to enjoy a luxurious holiday at a beautiful beachfront hotel, while being able to commute to the office over Chol Hamoed. Any family members on vacation can spend the time utilizing the luxury spa as well as the indoor and outdoor pools. In addition, children can attend the on-site day camp run by highly experienced staff.

Pesach in Long Branch is held at the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, just an 1:40hr from the Five Towns, 1:13hr from Teaneck, and 1:32hr from Monsey. Long Branch is just 90 minutes from Penn Station on the NJ Transit trains.

Activities abound throughout the program and include music, hypnotists, casino nights, and more. Scholars-in-residence on the program include Rabbi Edward Reichmann, renowned speaker on Jewish medical ethics, Stephen Savitsky, former president and chairman of the OU, Rabbi Gedaliah Jaffe, rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Yisroel in Edison NJ, and Rabbi Shmuel Reichman, creator of Self-Mastery Academy, a self-development course founded on Torah principles, psychology and leadership.

Entertainment provided by comedian MODI, Ronnie Baras, a world-renowned mentalist, and Israel Silverman, U.S Chess Federation Candidate Master.

For more information on LTT in Long Branch or to book your family’s Pesach vacation, call ☎️ 718-528-0700, or visit Leisure Time Tours online.


Leisure Time Tours – Palm Beach, Florida

Down in Florida, Leisure Time Tours is partnering with Kosherica to bring Pesach to Palm Beach. The PGA National Resort and Spa has recently undergone a $65 million renovation and is ready to bring you the luxury vacation of a lifetime. Guests will have access to 5 tournament-ready golf courses, amongst the best in Florida, and 40,000 sqft European spa with 32 treatment rooms and a full-service beauty salon.

PGA National also offer a massive Health and Racquetball Center that includes weights and cardio machines, as well as yoga, spinning and pilates studios. Finally, the hotel features a zero-entry pool and separate children’s pool to let you take advantage of Florida’s beautiful springtime weather.

Pesach at PGA National boasts children and teen programs, shiurim, daily minyanim, and fantastic Chol Hamoed entertainment.

3 scholars-in-residence will be joining the program: Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of KJ on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of Aish HaTorah, and Rabbi Yitz Novak, AIPAC Northeast Regional Synagogue Initiative Director.

Entertainment is provided by comedian MODI, and renowned Jewish singer Avraham Fried.

LTT in Palm Beach is currently waitlist only. Call ☎️ 718-528-0700 to join the waitlist. For more information, visit Leisure Time Tours online.


Leisure Time Tours – Phoenix, Arizona

Leisure Time Tours’ fourth program is located in Phoenix, AZ at the luxurious Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort. The all-suites hotel is located just minutes from Central Phoenix, Scottsdale, and the Biltmore Corridor while being surrounded by beautiful mountain views.

The Falls Water Village makes up the pool area, which is composed of stunning waterfalls, sun-soaked terraces, free-form pools, and a 138ft waterslide. Guests can reserve one of 18 private cabanas which are stocked with refreshments and come with a dedicated waiter to deliver complimentary alcoholic beverages, smoothies, and food from the daily poolside BBQ.

The hotel also offers an 18 hole award-winning golf course set beautifully in the area’s desert terrain, as well as a salon, spa, and workout center. For those looking to experience the beautiful Phoenix area, the hotel is easily accessible to a variety of biking and hiking trails, including accessible trails.
Leisure Time Tours also offers a fantastic children’s day camp program, run by highly experienced staff.

Scholars-in-residence that will be joining the program is Rabbi Steven Weil, currently a part of Friends of the IDF following 11 years at the OU, Rabbi Mark Wildes, founder of the Manhattan Jewish Experience, a Jewish outreach and educational program, and Payom Benson, a board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Nephrology who will discuss some of the fascinating medical issues currently facing our society.

Entertainment provided by comedian MODI, Shulem Lerner, the first born-and-raised Haredi Jew to sign a major contract with a leading record label, Dini Klein, recipe developer and the founder of Prep and Rally Meal Service, Elliot Steinmetz, head coach of the YU Maccabees basketball team, Jacob Steinmetz, starting pitcher on the Arizona Diamondbacks and the first Orthodox Jew to be drafted into the MLB, and Alyssa Schechter, part of the programming team at Camp Lavi and program organizer at HAFTR High School.

LTT in Phoenix is currently waitlist only. Call ☎️ 718-528-0700 to join the waitlist. For more information, visit Leisure Time Tours online.


All Leisure Time Tours programs in the United States are kosher certified by the ORB. The program in Italy is certified by Rabbi S. Wilshansky of Milan.

To read more about any of the programs, visit Leisure Time Tours online, or call 929-207-2588.