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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.
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.
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.
NORWALK- Three Westport residents were honored at Congregation Beth El in Norwalk on Oct. 11 during Simchat Torah services.
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.
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...
Rabbi Mark S. Miller’s favorite part of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar, a traditional instrument typically made from a ram’s horn.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Three neo-Nazis unfurled large swastika flags outside a Riverside synagogue on Oct. 2 as congregants gathered inside for Shabbat and Sukkot prayers.
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.
On Oct. 14 UNC Charlotte’s campus police received word that an act of vandalism had occured on campus. A sukkah, a Jewish traditional booth created to celebrate the weeklong holiday of Sukkot, was defaced and the letters F U were scrawled on the sukkah’s star of David.
