Mirzoeff noted that the sukkahs are “a form of performance art for peace.” While the artwork tells its own story, the sukkah itself carries historical and spiritual weight.

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival creates bridge through art and design in North Lawndale This year’s festival runs from Sunday to Oct. 26 at the James Stone Freedom Square, 3615 W. Douglas Blvd.

As such, the Sukkah should be void of all elements of comfort. It should contain nothing more than some broken chairs, an old table and meager cutlery merely sufficient to eat one’s dry bread with.

Another tension that Judaism, as a living conceptual art tradition, allows us to explore through our sukkah is between the particularist — the family, and the national — on one hand, and the ...

Sukkot is a Jewish festival that follows right on the heels of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Judaism’s High Holy Days. The harvest holiday, which begins on October 16, 2024, lasts for seven days ...

In his Jerusalem sukkah, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, president of Ohr Torah Stone, a network of Orthodox schools and institutions, hung 32 mosaics depicting the symbols of the 32 Gaza border ...

The 2024 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival (CSDF) is an annual public art and architecture exhibition of outdoor pavilions, celebrating cultural heritage, interfaith and interracial solidarity. ABC7 ...

When the threat of war increased during the 1930s in Germany, Judaica collector Dr. Heinrich Feuchtwanger attempted to persuade the Deller family to donate their sukkah to a museum in Jerusalem.

(New York Jewish Week) — On Friday evening, several dozen people huddled underneath umbrellas and raincoats in a new sukkah in Brooklyn that had survived the day’s record-setting rainstorm.

Indeed, some Jews are finding ways to realize the social justice potential in the holiday. Fiber artist Heather Stoltz used a sukkah as the basis for an art exhibition called “Temporary Shelter,” ...

Like Eternal Sukkah, their Deller copy gestures at the capacity of art and faith not merely to transcend but also transform. In Fischach, they met the current occupant of a long-gone synagogue.

A sukkah is a symbol of G-d’s protection in the wilderness and the ability to bring Hashem with you everywhere.