Tag: Sukkot
A hop and a happy mess: Sukkot under the stars
For Yael Michaely, her husband Boaz and their three young children, feeling at home in their new country began in earnest one autumn evening in 2004.
For these Israelis recently transplanted to Newton, Mass., the...
Banning some, giving others: Shaky presence of lulavs and etrogs at Israel’s airport
A special task force will begin operating at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel in the next few days, charged with preventing the import of three of the four species that comprise the lulav and etrog combination necessary for...
President’s Sukka open house to celebrate diaspora
President Reuven Rivlin and first lady Nechama Rivlin will host the traditional President’s Open Sukka on Monday, celebrating two important elements: the state’s upcoming 70th anniversary and the diversity of Jews in the Diaspora.
The...
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...