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Visiting Darfur Camps Brings Home Need

Rabbi David Saperstein November 10, 2005

We stood on Sukkot amid the Darfur refugee camps in eastern Chad along the Sudanese border: two prominent Reform rabbis, Rabbi David Stern of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas and Rabbi Rick Jacobs of Westchester Reform Temple in New York; John Fishel, president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, who is deeply knowledgeable about Africa, and Ruth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which organized the trip and does such effective development work worldwide.

Kohelet 5766

Judy Gruen October 20, 2005

On the holiday of Sukkot, it is customary to read Kohelet, the Book of Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon. The following \”updated\” version of Kohelet is written by Judy Gruen, with major apologies to King Solomon.

Lulav Shortage Shakes Jewish World

Chanan Tigay October 13, 2005

American legislators, Israeli officials and Jewish groups are working diplomatic channels in an effort to stave off a looming lulav shortage ahead of Sukkot.

Seders: Not Just for Pesach Anymore

Rahel Musleah September 22, 2005

Every holiday has its aura. Pesach has a scrubbed cleanliness; Purim, a cookie-dough indulgence, Sukkot, a back-to-nature thankfulness. Rosh Hashanah has its aura, too. For most of us, it\’s one that begins a season of awe, judgment and repentance.

Home for the Holidays

Howard Nemetz October 7, 2004

My son attends Hebrew day school. At least, I think he attends it. It\’s October and he hasn\’t been there for a full five-day week yet.

Give Your Sukkah a Shot of Style

Keren Engelberg September 23, 2004

After the high of the High Holidays, twice-a-year Jews hang up their kippot for another 354 days, or so, and in the process miss out on the lesser-known treat of Sukkot.

I’m Dreaming of My School’s Sukkah

Julie Gruenbaum Fax October 9, 2003

The sound of metal folding chairs scraping against rocky parking lot asphalt always gives me the chills — but only in a good way.

To me it\’s the sound of Sukkot in the Shaarei Tefila sukkah, where I ate soggy tuna sandwiches and carrot sticks out of rumpled paper bags for most of my childhood Sukkots.

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