Call it a cottage industry. Yeshiva students and handymen are raking in a holiday bonanza by installing sukkahs, the temporary tabernacles that are a fixture of the Jewish Feast of Booths. The Hebrew ...
This year is the 25th anniversary of Facets of Faith. To observe this, every so often, I’m choosing a column from the past to rerun. This one ran originally on Oct. 3, 2009. Details, such as the dates ...
Tens of thousands of Christians from 60 countries around the world are participating in Thursday’s annual “Feast of the Tabernacles” march around Jerusalem. The march includes non-Jews who have ...
Succoth, the Feast of Tabernacles, will be ushered in tonight at services in Reform and Orthodox Congregations. The Holiday, the season of the harvest, will last eight days from October 11 to October ...
“You shall dwell in sukkot seven days…in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God.” ...
It’s possible to build a sukkah from a kit. But Stuart Gasner of Harrisburg preferred to follow the example of his father and use two-by-fours, plywood and paint. “What slowed us down is we did it in ...
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Members of a local congregation on Sunday led an outdoor celebration of the richness of the season and the community. The three-hour event at the Baker Park band shell brought together tradition, ...
The somber High Holy Days, which ended on Sunday, give way tonight to Sukkot, the colorful Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkot recalls the Israelites’ travels in the Sinai desert after their liberation from ...