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Building a sukkah doesn’t make sense this year in Asheville. But we can see the stars already.

Many people in Asheville are living in temporary dwellings out of necessity after Hurricane Helene.

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UK group urges families to ‘save a seat in the sukkah’ for hostages in Gaza, in a new take on a Jewish tradition

The initiative riffs on “ushpizin,” the practice of inviting symbolic guests to the temporary huts built for the Sukkot holiday.

etrog market

Meet the pop-up etrog sellers of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens

Inside one of the seasonal markets that appear in Jewish neighborhoods in New York City ahead of Sukkot.

Israelis are decorating their first sukkahs since Oct. 7 with symbols of the crisis since

Jake Retzlaff

Israeli Deni Avdija sits out Yom Kippur NBA preseason game; Jewish BYU football player suits up

From snout to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig

Sandy Koufax

Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965. But did he go to synagogue?

One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning

Shofars blown along Ukrainian frontlines as part of Rosh Hashanah initiative for soldiers

I used to cringe at Rosh Hashanah ‘blessings’ cursing our enemies. Not this year.

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