The commandment to build a sukkah using waste has a surprising dual meaning: It encourages us to seek more balance in our ...

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Every seven years, immediately after the Sabbatical year, on the first of the intermediate days of Sukkot, the Israelites ...

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I know this – if we are going to write the next chapter of Jewish life post October 7th, we need our young families not only ...

Many Icelandic tours focus on mountain huts in the highlands. A booth in downtown Reykjavik, the Nordic country’s lone sukkah ...

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If Jews in the midst of battle in Sinai, persecuted by the Soviets in Moscow, or surrounded by death at Auschwitz celebrated ...