The recent spike in construction costs may have derailed many a project, but not in Redondo Beach, where Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossi and Sara Mintz plowed forward with their elegantly-appointed Jewish ritual bath.

The final price tag soared from $180,000 to $350,000, but Sara Mintz told The Jewish Journal that she wants local women to “feel like this is a special place for them.” …