Sukkot, also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, began this year at sundown on Oct 16, four days after the end of the fast day of Yom Kippur. It is one of the three festivals on which the Jewish ...

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Sukkot, a Jewish holiday celebrated in the fall, started its weeklong celebration from sundown on Oct. 16 until the evening ...

Sukkot is a seven-day festival and a very sacred holiday for many Jews. This year it began Wednesday evening. The most ...

Sukkot is celebrated five days after Yom Kippur and is named after the booths or huts in which Jews are supposed to dwell ...

Just a few days ago we closed out the High Holidays. As the sun waned on the holiest day of the year, I looked out the window of the Downtown ...

As we will be going into our sukkah, this year it also means that we are moving toward Simchat Torah, the closure of Sukkot, the peak of the 40 Days of Awe — and the first year anniversary of Hamas’ ...

which explores the symbolism of the four species delineated by the Torah to be used in the Sukkot ritual. The midrash ...

With all of this, we are still left this year with the question: How can we bring joy into our Sukkot observance this year?

At Sukkot time, many Jews focus on the Four Species – etrog (citron), lulav (palm frond), three hadassim (myrtle twigs), and ...