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COPLEY — Members of the third-grade class at Spring Garden Waldorf School are shown building a sukkah to celebrate the Jewish holiday Sukkot. The holiday commemorates the 40 years that the Israelites wandered in the desert, searching for their promised land, and has evolved into a harvest festival.
BEDMINSTER TWP . – In response to criticism in a letter to the editor, Andrew Isaacs, a Democratic candidate for Township Committee, noted this week that he didn’t attend Fall Fest because the event was held on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
For the past five years, Temple Bat Yahm member John Bernstein has spent the day after the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur overseeing the distribution of several tons of food, which the congregation amasses each year in a large diesel truck outside the temple.
By Sara Clark Staff Writer Giving a fresh glimpse at Jewish culture, the Tsuker-zis Jewish Holiday Music concert - featuring internationally known Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Robert Schwimmer - will take place at the P.K. Yonge auditorium today at 7:30 p.m. "The music shakes people up and makes them look at Jewish culture in a way they haven't before," said...
Children attending the Chabad of Greenwich preschool raised high their lulavs and etrogs when they visited seniors at The Mews senior residence in Greenwich during the Sukkot holiday last month.
NORWALK- Three Westport residents were honored at Congregation Beth El in Norwalk on Oct. 11 during Simchat Torah services.
Children and adults of all ages learned about the beauty and joy of the Jewish “autumn” holidays - beginning with the High Holy-Days, and culminating with the festivities of Sukkot and Simchat Torah with Chabad of Orange County.
Stanford University’s Jewish community celebrated the first night of Sukkot by eating the traditional festive meal inside the sukkah they put up every year.
Rabbi Mark S. Miller’s favorite part of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar, a traditional instrument typically made from a ram’s horn.
GREETING CARD EXHIBIT Through 11/1: Display of vintage Rosh Hashanah postcards. At Temple Emanuel in Newton. 617-558-8100. PHOTOGRAPHY OF JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS Through 1/3: Photos of scenes in Boston, New York, Paris and elsewhere taken between 1946 and 1976 by Jules Aarons. At the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln.
Sunday school students from Congregation Kehilat Chaverim in Glastonbury spent a cool and sunny morning recently celebrating the holiday of Sukkot by working on a local farm.
Paris — Nestled among Parisian gefilte fish proprietors, pickled herring vendors and boulangeries stocked with chocolate rugelach, an Israeli restaurateur yanks otherwise oblivious customers into his teeming falafel palace while Chabad boys sell palm fronds for Sukkot across the cobblestone Rue des Rosiers.
JUF's Joyfully Jewish Book Buddies program is celebrating Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot with arts and crafts, story time and songs.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Four Israelis with swine flu have died in two days. The deaths, which bring the total number of deaths in Israel related to the H1N1 virus to 36, are the first since Sukkot.
Editor, Adam R. Burnett’s article, “Sukkot makes joyful noise,” in the Oct. 12 issue, contained a number of factual errors and misleading statements that deserve clarification. First, Sukkot is a Jewish Holiday that has been celebrated continuously and joyfully by the mainstream Jewish community for thousands of years.
Like thousands of men have done for hundreds of years, Rachel Druck is studying the prohibitions of Yom Kippur these days. In Aramaic, in the Talmud, in a yeshiva.
