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Sukkot Breads in Fall Colors

Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz

Decorate your Sukkot table with Ethiopian, North African, and Sephardi breads full of fall colors and tantalizing spice mixes and broaden our palates to the customs of worldwide Jewish communities. Laden with seasonal honey, pumpkin, or orange, they don’t need braiding, and they make perfect gifts.

Temporary Structure, Perpetual Joy

Cantor Lauren Phillips Fogelman

Sukkot is known in Hebrew as Z’man Simchateinu – the time of our joy. It’s the happiest festival on the Jewish calendar, labeled as such because it represents a time for coming together to enjoy family, nature, and a bountiful harvest.

Sukkot: Festival of Voting Booths

Rabbi Scott M. Nagel

Rabbi Susan N. Shankman

Rabbi Randi Nagel

It is a tradition that we observe as Americans as well, as we enter into booths each fall (and occasionally at other moments during the year) in order to make our voices heard and exercise our right to vote.

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Have We Forgotten the Call of the Shofar Already?

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

"Have we forgotten the call of the shofar already / To gather and stand up for what’s right? / Have we forgotten what shofar’s demanding / That we pursue justice, compassion, holy light?"

Sukkot in a Time Of Pandemic: A Poem

Lee McPhillips Radlo

This year, even if you do not have a sukkah to visit, you can still experience the kavanah (intention) and the ruach (spirit) of Sukkot.

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It's Sukkot, Let's Vote: The Letter I Wrote to My Neighbors about Our Sukkah

Shira Zemel

Known as z’man simchateinu (season of our rejoicing), Sukkot is the only festival associated with an explicit commandment to rejoice.

This Sukkot, Support Environmental Protections from Border to Border

Susan Paykin

Question: On Sukkot, we remember our ancestors' struggles to balance their lives with the surrounding environment in order to produce a bountiful harvest each year. But most of us no longer grow our own food or live at the mercy of natural phenomena in the same ways.

Conservation from Farm to Fork

Susan Paykin

Last Sunday marked the 42nd annual Earth Day, a celebration of our natural world and recognition of the important role humans play in protecting it by living within our means.

Galilee Diary: Sukkah season

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

You shall live in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God. -Leviticus 23:42-43

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