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Sukkot

Hut haven: World’s sukkahs shown in Netanya
Sukkah in Herzliya, Israel.

October 17, 2011
JTA
More than 20 countries are displaying their traditional sukkahs at a festival in Israel celebrating Jewish Diaspora communities.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Soups are super for the sukkah

by Sybil Kaplan, JTA

Cold or hot, soup is ideal for the sukkah. What better way to warm up on a chilly night or cool off on a warm afternoon?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Report: Egyptian lulavs smuggled to Israel, U.S.

JTA

Thousands of palm fronds for Sukkot lulavs reportedly have been smuggled out of Egypt despite a ban on their export.

Rabbi Amy Eilberg speaking at the Clergy Beyond Borders' panel presentation on Monday, October 10, 2011
Opinion: Can we befriend all the world’s nations?

For great numbers of Jews, the Jewish people is family, its concerns always primary in our hearts. Many take this to mean that we must always attend. . .

Friday, October 7, 2011
Should my sukkah have a debt ceiling?

by Edmon J. Rodman, JTA

Each Sukkot we read in Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, that there “is a time to tear down, and a time to build up." For my sukkah it was time for both.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sukkahs that captured a city’s imagination to go nationwide

by Sue Fishkoff, JTA

It was a surprise hit on the cultural roster of a city that may be the most culturally busy city in the nation.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Chicago synagogue, sukkah vandalized

JTA

A Chicago-area synagogue, including its sukkah, was vandalized.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A reflection on ethical consumption

by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

Each fall after the High Holy Days have passed, the Jewish people move from comfortable homes into impermanent huts in backyards, driveways and on. . .

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Celebrate Sukkot with splendid autumn desserts

By Linda Morel, JTA

While most people equate Sukkot with autumn vegetables, I picture the holiday as a tea party. Among Jews who build sukkahs, the evening meal is the. . .

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A perpetual sukkah

By Orit Arfa

Arab workers are taking down a roof of a caravilla in the coastal town of Nitzan. They’re stacking the terra cotta tiles, leaving standing a. . .

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Heat damages Israel’s etrog crop

JTA

Israel's unusually extreme summer heat has seriously damaged this year's etrog crop, growers say.

Friday, August 20, 2010
Build a Sukkah [VIDEO]

by Robin Heinz Bratslavsky

After you break the fast, it’s time to break out the tools. Sukkot begins Sept. 22, and one of the most authentic ways to celebrate this ancient. . .

Monday, October 12, 2009
Dalai Lama visits D.C. sukkah

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The Dalai Lama visited the sukkah of a Washington synagogue.

Monday, October 12, 2009
Sukkot with Ambassador Michael Oren

By Rabbi Daniel Bouskila

Last week, I came very close to witnessing the Prophet Zechariah’s vision of many nations gathering together in Jerusalem to worship God on Sukkot.. . .

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sukkat Shalom: From Uganda to U.S. and Back

By Amy Klein

Indeed, we are very far from my Los Angeles home. The Abayudaya (“People of Judah” in Luganda, the local language) — 1,100 Jews in about eight. . .

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sukkot Sweets, With Etrog’s Cousin

By Judy Zeidler

Sukkot, one of the happiest of all Jewish festivals, is a home-centered holiday that actually takes place outside of the home. The festival’s main. . .

Thursday, September 27, 2007
One man’s sukkah is another man’s shack

By Jacob Neusner

Vast slums perch precariously in the hills overlooking Rio de Janeiro, each made up of thousands of sukkot -- flimsy shacks in which people live

Thursday, September 20, 2007
A sukkah by the sea where produce is on the menu

By Judy Zeidler

Ellen Hoffman and Neal Castleman live in a contemporary two-story home that covers a narrow lot in Malibu. We have been guests for several years at. . .

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sukkot in the City

By Jane Ulman

Sukkot ("tabernacles" or "booths" in English) is one of three major Jewish pilgrimage festivals (shalosh regalim) and begins at sundown on Sept. 26.. . .

Thursday, October 26, 2006
‘Secular Yeshiva’ answers young Israelis’ questions

By Dina Kraft

The goal is to give young, secular Israelis an education that will show them that they too have a rich culture to tap into and explore.

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Brotherhood in a Sukkah ... in Iraq

By Rabbi Gary Davidson

Being a service member in Operation Iraqi Freedom, I also realized that life, like the sukkah, is temporary. One never knows how long one might live. . .

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Water and pumpkins mark eco-friendly Sukkot

By Jane Ulman

True Joy Through Water, a new outreach program created by Canfei Nesharim ("the wings of eagles"), an Orthodox environmental organization, it's. . .

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Pico-Robertson Live in the ‘hood: Little sukkahs, on the hillside, little huts made of ...

By David Suissa

One of the great rituals of Jewish life: The sukkah.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Faith and Season

By Rob Eshman

It is easy to read the headlines and conclude that if religion would just go away, all would be well. But humans are hard-wired for belief.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Sukkot: the beauty of fragility

By Rabbi Daniel Greyber

On Sukkot, the time tradition tells us is zman simchateinu, the season of our joy, we dwell in a fragile hut, open to the winds and rain and cold of. . .






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