From that beginning, the big question concerns the divisions within the Jewish community: who decides what being Jewish is all about, from the extremes of accepting anyone who self-identifies as a Jew or to the orthodox view of Jewish matrilineal inheritance.
The enormous new hotel being built in downtown Los Angeles will be an InterContinental, its developers announced Tuesday. The nearly 900-room hotel will be the heart of a skyscraper called Wilshire Grand, soon to be the tallest building in the West at 73 stories. The tower set to open in 2017 will also have several floors of office space for rent and ground-level shops and restaurants.
(Hereâs a quick, general overview video of the Luxor Hotel and Casino) While the Luxor originally had just 2,526 rooms in the pyramid itself, the opening of the twin 22 story hotels in 1998 brought the resortâs total room count to 4,400 rooms, of which 442 are suites. It is the second largest hotel in Las Vegas, only behind the MGM Grand, and the 8th largest hotel in the world.