Sukkot
Reclaiming the Joy of Torah
With the holiday of Simchat Torah coming up, rabbinical student Becky Silverstein considers how the Jewish calendar lets her renew ...
Here’s to Being “Happy”
A documentary film called “Happy” came out last year, following a considerable amount of research and writing on the newly ...
Who are you inviting into your Sukkah this year?
During the holiday of Sukkot, it’s customary to invite honored guests into our homes and sukkot, the festival huts we ...
Autumn in His Heart
I’ve thought a lot about Isaac Babel’s lovely characterization of the Jew as a man with “[s]pectacles on his nose and ...
Songs of Hope and Failure
On Monday, Chris Moriarty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisitor’s Apprentice. She will be blogging here all week for ...
A Sukkah Occupies Wall Street
This was a post that previous appeared on the MyJewishLearning/Jewish Book Council blog. As I write this blog post, I ...
The Sukkah Still Stands
Despite the dangers and tragedies of our world, we can take comfort in the divine protection symbolized by the Sukkah.
Numbers 29: 35 – 30:1: Maftir
Additional Torah Reading on Simchat Torah. Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah in the Community. Rejoicing with the Torah. Jewish Holidays.
