Natural materials like palm fronds, tree branches or reeds typically create the top of the sukkah. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Sukkot is a Jewish festival that follows right on the heels of ...

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The week-long celebration is all about giving thanks for the autumn harvest THE Jewish festival season has arrived, with Sukkot lasting for seven days in the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. But ...

When you weave through the clumsy or wonderful (depending on your religious identity and aesthetic) accoutrements of Sukkot, when you observe every ritual and say every word, you can reduce this ...

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A Jewish ultra-Orthodox family prepares their sukkah (hut) for the celebrations of Sukkot in the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, Israel, October 5 2014. (Abir Sultan/EPA) ...

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Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. Sukkot is a Jewish festival that follows right on the heels of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Judaism’s High Holy Days. The harvest holiday, ...