MK Tzvi Succot (Religious Zionists) delivered a special address in the Knesset plenum on Monday in honor of Yud Tes Kislev, the day marking the release of Chabad founder Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ...

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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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Guest columnist Robert A. Nosanchuk is inaugural senior rabbi and Will & Jan Sukenik Chair in Rabbinics at Congregation Mishkan Or, a dynamic new synagogue community ...

This week heralds the start of the Sukkot celebration, one of the most important religious events in the Jewish and Samaritan religions. The week-long holiday is an agricultural tradition, marking the ...

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The Tur, one of the greatest halakhic decisors, makes an intriguing comment:’The three regalim were established as against our three forefathers: Pesach against Avraham Avinu, as it is written ( ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — 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, which begins on Sept. 29, 2023, lasts ...