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Saturday: Tulsan's design on U.S. postal stamp

Tulsa World - Fri Nov 27, 2:38 pm ET

It is only the third U.S. stamp to commemorate the Jewish holiday, which begins Dec. 11.

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Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving
The Berkeley Daily Planet - Wed Nov 25, 12:12 pm ET
Somehow someone’s gotten the idea lately that Thanksgiving is all about food. Well, no, not exactly. It’s the successor to a whole variety of traditional festivals going back at least to the Jewish Sukkot (sometimes transliterated as Succoth).
Sheila's Out Shopping: Hanukkah
Naples Daily News - Fri Nov 20, 5:57 pm ET
The lighting of the first candle for Hanukkah this year will be at sundown Dec. 11, and all eight candles and the shamus will be burning brightly on Dec. 18.Hanukkah is the Jewish holiday that is also called the festival of lights, and celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the Hellenist Syrians in the second century B.C.A small amount of oil to light the ...
Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Tue Nov 17, 11:29 pm ET
Students from Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration on skid row.
The drive to donate food
Daily Pilot - Sat Nov 14, 12:14 am ET
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.
Book It: Book Events November 15–21
Bostonist - Sun Nov 15, 9:29 pm ET
Monday, November 16 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store *Cory Doctorow, Makers 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Steve Buckley, A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports Tuesday, November 17 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Maxim D. Shrayer, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Anita Silvey, Everything I Need to ...
Spring Garden students build sukkah to celebrate Jewish holiday Sukkot
West Side Leader & South Side News Leader - Thu Nov 5, 8:34 am ET
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.
A Haredi Town Confronts Abuse From The Inside
The Jewish Week - Tue Nov 10, 7:50 pm ET
On the night before Yom Kippur in September, Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman stood before his Orthodox congregation, in a room crowded with men wearing black hats and women wearing sheitels, and moderated a panel discussion among five Orthodox Jews who said they had been the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of other Orthodox Jews. The rabbi regularly uses his pulpit to preach against the evils ...
Jewish Holiday Music concert to bring in eclectic performers
The Gainesville Sun - Wed Nov 4, 6:02 am ET
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...
Norwalk shul honors three Westport congregants
Jewish Ledger - Wed Nov 4, 1:44 pm ET
NORWALK- Three Westport residents were honored at Congregation Beth El in Norwalk on Oct. 11 during Simchat Torah services.
Chabad marked Sukkot with fun events
The Photo News - Thu Oct 29, 2:51 am ET
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.
Celebrating Sukkot across the Generations
Jewish Ledger - Wed Nov 4, 1:40 pm ET
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.
Bedminster Democrat: Fall Fest was on Jewish holiday
The Bernardsville News - Thu Nov 5, 7:04 am ET
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Stanford faith groups unite in wake of sukkah vandalism
J Weekly - Thu Nov 5, 4:02 pm ET
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.
Jewish time of change
Daily Pilot - Mon Nov 2, 10:09 am ET
Rabbi Mark S. Miller’s favorite part of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar, a traditional instrument typically made from a ram’s horn.
On the farm
Jewish Ledger - Fri Oct 30, 11:10 am ET
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.