Sukkot

Minneapolis uses Sukkot exhibit to highlight the city’s housing crisis

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (JTA) – Minneapolis is using the fragile huts associated with the ancient festival of Sukkot to draw attention to a modern political and social issue – lack of affordable housing in the city. During Sukkot, Jews express gratitude for God’s abundance and for the comforts of home while reflecting on the […]

HOLIDAY FEATURE Serving food that conjures up memories of Sukkot from the past

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (JTA) — I can still picture the loosely constructed hut built behind my synagogue in New Rochelle, N.Y., every Sukkot. During my childhood, I’d reach for eggplants, red peppers and apples pinned to interior walls and hanging from branches entwined in its roof. I inhaled the scent of autumn air and […]

FOCUS ON FAMILY Sukkot celebrates huts along with some hospitality

ENCINO, Calif., Sept. 16 (JTA) – “You shall live in booths seven days in order that future generations may know I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt." (Leviticus 23:42-43) It’s not enough commemoration that for eight days of Pesach we eat matzah, which grows […]

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Minneapolis uses Sukkot exhibit to highlight the city’s housing crisis

HOLIDAY FEATURE Serving food that conjures up memories of Sukkot from the past

FOCUS ON FAMILY Sukkot celebrates huts along with some hospitality

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