Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday that coincides with the autumn harvest, during which Jews erect sukkahs.
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The Schmooze Architects: Start Designing Your Sukkahs Now!
With Shavuot less than a week away, dairy foods and all-night study sessions are more on our minds than building a sukkah, a task almost half a year away. But for innovative architects hoping to reshape the temporary dwelling in a new form, the time to start working on their designs is now. From September…
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Life No More Sukkah, Time for Hanukkah and the Spinagogue
Proving that Jewish consumer culture is devouring the calendar every bit as voraciously as any other culture in America, Modern Tribe has just sent out notice of the home they have built for the dreidel — the “Spinagogue.” Homelessness and hunger are indeed terrible problems in our world. Glad that Sarah Silverman and Modern Tribe…
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Life Avoiding a Hijacking by Lulav Rod
Many a peeved passenger has arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport this week. Some Diaspora Jews pay big money for their lulav or palm branch, waved with an etrog and two other species in synagogue over Sukkot. But airport security staff around the world have apparently become convinced that the protective lulav bags used to…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Building Sukkahs in the West Bank
There has been wide-scale building in the settlements this week. In some settlements, including most of the Etzion bloc which straddles the Green Line as well as some deep inside the West Bank such as Beth El, there has been almost one new unit built per family. You probably figured it out. These are religious…
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Life ‘Mad Men’ and Our Mad Cool Sukkah
“Mad Men” is my favorite television show. I know, I’ve got lots of company. But the plaudits are well deserved for a show that relieves us of overstatement and laugh tracks. Best about the incisively-written show is the recondite emotional life of its women. Sure, Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) tries his hunky best…
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Life Sukkot Customs I’d Like To Change
As a parent, I love the holiday of Sukkot, which begins Friday night. It’s a great family time – lots of al fresco dining, sleeping outdoors, enjoying fresh air, singing, cooking favorite foods, and experiencing a welcome escape from the weightiness of an excessively material life. There’s nothing like spending eight days inside four walls…
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