Sukkot

The latest assessment comes after Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz announced yesterday that the new railway, which had been scheduled to start operations on March 30, would now begin running on September 23, the eve of the Sukkot holiday. However, experts familiar with the project say that it will not ...

The Sukkah is familiar to us from our Festival of Booths holiday of Sukkot. We build temporary booths by which to remember the booths that our spiritual ancestors lived in during their four decades of wanderings within the wilderness after their Exodus from Egypt. Jewish tradition also teaches us that our ...

But there are other holidays which have nothing to do with surviving persecution – Sukkot and Shavuot come to mind. And more importantly, the joke misses the ... No Jewish holiday is complete if we are only concerned with our own fancy meals; we have to feed others. This week's parasha, Ki Tisa, also ...

Our class really liked the process, and it was a fun way to connect shop skills to sukkah building. This has been a very exciting project for us, and a memorable one, too! Sukkot emphasizes the fun side of the Jewish holidays. It is a holiday that is meant to celebrate with friends and family. It is a great ...

At Jerusalem's bustling Mahane Yehuda market, he demonstrated his unique blends on a recent day, "anointing" bearded shoppers with balms inspired by Jewish festivals and rites. One conjures up the citrus notes of Sukkot, the autumn festival that commemorates the desert wandering of the Jews during ...

A 'sukkah' is a booth or hut, and 'sukkot' is the plural form of the word - hence the name is a nod to the temporary shelters Jews lived in at this time. The holiday also can be translated as Feast of Tabernacles or Festival of Booths. It is one of Judaism's three central pilgrimage festivals - along with Passover ...

It doesn't end after the High Holidays—Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur—though those are still the most important holidays of the season and arguably of ... The holiday also can be referred to by other names, such as the Festival of Booths, the Season of Our Rejoicing, and the Festival of the Ingathering.

There have been a number of Jewish festivals in the last few weeks, first Rosh Hashanah and then 25 hours of fasting with Yom Kippur and atoning for the sins of the past year. ... The festival of Sukkot – or Tabernacles to give it its English name – begins five days after the end of fasting for Yom Kippur.

... though not on account of the mild Mediterranean climate. The colors of fall in Israel are steeped in Jewish tradition and a commandment from the Torah that Jews commemorate the time our ancestors lived in the desert, in temporary shelters called sukkot, as they journeyed from Egypt to the Land of Israel.