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sukkah
Making the sukkah beautiful
Jewish Journal
September 17, 2013
I built my first sukkah three years ago. It was your typical sukkah in a kit — a metal pole and tarp structure, stark white and generic. As I decorated it, I realized that no matter how many plastic fruits and vegetables I hung from the sides and ceiling, they seemed to get lost in the space. The big white tarps were just too visually dominant.
The Building Blocks of a Great Sukkah
Michael Brown
October 13, 2005
Every year, Scott Rekant of Monmouth Junction, N.J., hauls a tidy pile of 21 2-by-4s from his garage and puts together a sturdy sukkah that stands on his back porch.
A Home in Nature
Abby Gilad
September 19, 2002
On Sukkot, we eat and sleep in a hut called a sukkah.
The Grape Taste of Sukkot
Judy Zeidler
September 19, 2002
As a child, I loved the bunches of grapes that hung from the palm leaves covering the roof of the sukkah.
Fragility Around Us
Jane Ulman
September 19, 2002
On Sukkot, the Torah commands us to live in booths for seven days.
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