Marx Realty Breaks Ground For 130,000 s/f Target Store at Yonkers’ Cross County Center

Yonkers Target at Cross County Center – 2022.

YONKERS, NY — March 5, 2021 — One of the nation’s largest retailers, Target has signed a 40-year lease for the space that was once home to a four-story Sears store that closed in summer 2019.

The new Target, which will be the first in Yonkers, is scheduled to open in 2022.

“Today is an exciting day for the owners of Cross County Center and the Yonkers community. We could not be prouder to be home to the first Yonkers Target, as we continue to offer our shoppers and guests the best experience in shopping, dining and entertainment,” said Craig Deitelzweig, president and CEO of Marx Realty.

(L-R) Liz Pollack, Cross County Center; Mayor Mike Spano; Craig Deitelzweig; State Senator Shelley Mayer; Councilman John Rubbo and Carl Calabro, Cross County Center.

The 1,150,000 s/f  Cross County Center is jointly owned by Marx Realty and Benenson Capital Partners.

The outdoor lifestyle center is located at the intersection of Cross County Parkway and I-87, attracting over 11 million visitors annually ...

Amit Barack on the Changing Identity of Israel’s Arabic-Speaking Christians
By MARILYN STERN

Father Gabriel Nadaf of Nazareth, (left) a Greek Orthodox Priest, with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Nethanyahu.

ISRAEL — March 4, 2021 — Amit Barak, co-founder of the Jerusalemite Initiative, spoke to participants in a January 25th Middle East Forum webinar (video) about historic change occurring among the roughly 175,000 Arabic-speaking Israeli Christians and their growing identification with and integration into Israeli society as a whole.

For many years, Arabic-speaking Christians in Israel were commonly known as Christian Arabs, reflecting the fact that they shared much the same solidarity with the outside Arab world as Israel’s 1.3 million Muslim Arab citizens. Living primarily in Arab Muslim towns and villages, they were considered part of the undifferentiated Arab sector. Like Muslim Arabs, they are exempt from obligatory military service.

This perspective about the place of Arabic-speaking Christians in Israeli society began to shift around 2012, as they witnessed the growing persecution of Christians throughout the Middle East, most notably those in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and the Palestinian Authority self-rule areas.

In response, Father ...