Sukkot News

By Donna Bensn Kennedy Q. How have other cultures celebrated Thanksgiving? A. We generally think of Thanksgiving as a uniquely American holiday, but there's actually a long tradition of harvest-time celebrations and thanksgiving celebrations.

Stanford University's Jewish community celebrated the first night of Sukkot eating the traditional festive meal inside the sukkah they put up every year.

Stanford University's Jewish community celebrated the first night of Sukkot eating the traditional festive meal inside the sukkah they put up every year.

The pattern repeats itself: A relatively marginal Jewish organization calls upon the public to hold prayers on the Temple Mount to mark Yom Kippur, Sukkot or, as was the case this week, "Rambam Day" . These announcements win a great deal of attention in the Palestinian and Arab media, of course.

The Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which began last night and continues through Friday, is a reminder of the way ancient Israelites lived in temporary shelters while wandering in the desert for 40 years.

Rob, Hannah and I took turns posing in front of the "Welcome to Egypt" sign as we crossed the border.

Muslims rioted against Jews visiting the Temple Mount and a halachic ruling issued by the senior-most haredi rabbi forbade Jews to visit the holy site.

Submitted by Marcey Ginsburg Munoz on 2009-10-18.   Naomi Amaya Members of the Kehilat Chaverim of Greater Hartford Sunday School, ) Ethan Basch, Maseo Overmyer-Velazquez, Jake Long, and Victoria Abel carry vegetables they harvested at Auer Farm during a recent Sukkot activity.

It was only a few weeks ago that everyone left Temple Beth Israel after holiday services with smiles on their faces which, in these difficult economic times, seems an impossibility.

A night of celebration and remembrance under the stars marked the fourth day of the Jewish holiday Sukkot at the Bayonne Jewish Community Center.

Here are ten thoughts on how to spend your 'extra' time between Sukkot and Chanukah: Make notes .

Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, resembles her Chinese father more than her Jewish mother.

Sheikh Ra'ad Salah's calls for a jihad against Israel worked. At the last minute, the government was deterred from executing its plan to demolish the mosques on the Temple Mount and from exploiting the Sukkot pilgrimage to Jerusalem to lay the cornerstone of the Third Temple.

The FBI is investigating the defacing of a sign set up by a UNC-Charlotte Jewish group as a hate crime.

Sukkot - the plural of Sukkos - is the name of those huts, which are reminiscent of the fragile dwellings ancient Israelites used during their 40 years of wandering in Exodus.

Gabby Brousseau is headed back for seconds as Temple Bet Yam families enjoy dinner in their new sukkah.

Dylan Salzberg, 8, his mom, Lisa Salzberg, and sister Hunter Salzberg, of Grasmere, prepare snacks yesterday in a sukkah made of recycled materials at the Joan and Alan Bernikow Jewish Community Center in Sea View, during a Sukkot experience.

Daniel and Mindy Rubenstein stand outside their sukkah, where their family hosted guests for Sukkot on Tuesday night.

English, Hebrew and Farsi are commonly heard at Sinai Temple, one of the Westside's largest synagogues.

Every child learns the question in Jewish day school. If the sukkah reminds us of God's protection of the Jewish people in the desert why don't we build it in the month of Nisan when the Jewish people left Egypt.