Inside Israel’s $75,000 designer Sukkah
Visitors to Jerusalem during the holiday of Sukkot are often struck by a unique site: overtaking balconies across the city’s Jewish neighborhoods, little metal and wooden huts topped with branches and leaves huddle against one another....
This Holiday is the Joyous follow-up to Yom Kippur
Today marks the first day of Sukkot, the weeklong Jewish festival that not only signals the end of the high holidays but holds both historical and seasonal significance, as well.
Rabbi Ari D. Weiss of Cornell Hillel tells Refinery29 that...
Sukkot: Don’t read this—It’s utterly futile
Here is a dismal, if anecdotal, indicator of the state of Jewish education: whenever I have asked, I have found that the overwhelming majority of Jews don’t know that the phrase “nothing new under...
Desperate to Eat-oh – Despacito Yom Kippur Parody
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Here’s the World’s best Honey cake, according to science
I am among the legions of loathers of honey cake. Every Rosh Hashanah, someone tells me about their amazing honey cake that I must try, and I wind up having to make polite yum-yum faces while...
Rosh Hashanah Greetings, Yiddish-Style
We no longer send many Rosh Hashanah greeting cards to each other. Once, in the days leading up to the holiday, the mailboxes were clogged with them. Now, if we send them at all—and...
Jewish New Year starts Wednesday
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, will be Wednesday, and area Jews will be celebrating the High Holy Day.
Chabad of Peachtree City, 632 Dogwood Trail in Tyrone, and Congregation B'nai Israel, 1633 Hwy. 54...
Madonna observes Jewish Temples’ destruction, Tisha B’Av
International superstar, Madonna is apparently observing Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both the First Temple by...
The real lesson of Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av, the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, comes this year at a particularly fraught moment for the Jewish people. The only surviving architectural element of the...
Have we learned the lesson of Tisha B’Av?
According the Talmud, the main reason for the destruction of the second Holy Temple was baseless hatred. As the Tosefta (additional commentaries) at the end of Tractate Menachot explain, this tragedy befell the Jewish people because...