There are numerous words for “joy” in Hebrew. The particular word used here is the same as that used in the commandment of Sukkot — שמחה (simchah, joy). This type of joy is in a category ...

Who from other parts of the Jewish people can we invite into our sukkah? On Sukkot, we long for God to “restore the fallen sukkah of David … to mend its breaches” (Amos 9:11). On Sukkot ...

Indeed, the DP camps themselves were themselves temporary sanctuaries — that is to say, sukkot, the Hebrew term for booths — in which the survivors were able to return to life on their own terms.

Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is named after the huts the Israelites lived in during their exodus from Egypt, which Jews today build to and dwell in to commemorate this time. Sukkot is ...

Once home to the largest Jewish community in the Arab world, Morocco has a long history producing the citrus fruit used by millions of Jews every Sukkot — in fact, tradition holds that etrog ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

The agenda also features salutes to Jewish Argentinean poet Alejandra Pizarnik ... 1 p.m. Guided tours will also take place throughout Sukkot, daily at 11 a.m. There is a plethora of artistic ...

Have you heard of the festival of Sukkot? What do you know about it ... How will he talk to Moses and to his own advisors? Focus image: A Jewish man holding the ‘Four Kinds’: hadassim ...