Sukkot

How to Build a Sukkah (Video)

A guide to building a sukkah, produced by G-dcast and Moishe House.

Sukkot 2016

 When is Sukkot?Sukkot 2016 begins at sunset on Sunday, October 16 and lasts through the evening of Sunday, October 23.The conclusion of ...

A Feminist Walks Into An Orthodox Synagogue

This past Sukkot, I was on a spiritual high after Yom Kippur. The sanctuary had swelled with voices of prayer ...

All Your Males…

I hate Jewish holidays.I got married soon after becoming Orthodox, and I was excited to celebrate the Jewish holidays fully ...

Embracing Unity, Not Uniformity

The High Holiday season just ended. A spiritual, emotional and communal journey through Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot culminated ...

An Interesting Jewish “Jeopardy” Champ

Passover is the eight-day Jewish holiday in which we ask questions at the seder table. For one quirky Jewish guy ...

Can You Eat Your Etrog?

Well, first thing’s first: what is an etrog?The etrog is a medium size fruit that sort of looks like a ...

What Is The Torah We Want To Celebrate Today?

Today we celebrate the holiday of Simhat Torah. Literally meaning “rejoicing in Torah,” the holiday is a culmination both of ...

Five Stages of Soul

Simchat Torah: a day for reading — and connecting — the beginning and end of the Torah.The Torah begins with ...

Yogi Berra and Sukkot

Yogi Berra was the master of saying the wrong thing in the most right way. His death a couple of ...

OK, Who Invited Joaquin To The Sukkah?

I recall standing once in a communal sukkah teaching a group of children about Sukkot. It was a sunny day ...

What Makes This Lulav So Southern?

In elementary school, the Jewish holidays were never an issue — I went to a Jewish day school, so school ...