Posts Tagged: Sukkot Israel
A Sukkot Guide for the Perplexed, 2023
Ahead of Sukkot, which begins on Friday, here are some interesting facts about the holiday: 1. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, derives its name from the...
Israel Expects Pleasant Weather for Jewish Holiday of Sukkot
Sukkot nationwide have already been decorated, the last pots are already bubbling on the stove and there's a positively festive ambiance in the air: Israel...
From Festivals to Feasts: Four of the Top Sukkot Events in Israel
JNS.org - Sukkot in Israel is high season for tourism, as visitors from around the world arrive in the Jewish state to enjoy the plethora of cultural...
Palestinian Authority Releases Four Men Arrested for Attending Sukkot Event in West Bank
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority security forces released four Palestinians arrested Thursday for attending a holiday event at Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi's sukkah in Gush Etzion. The...
At Sukkot, Israeli Farmers Enjoy the Fruits of Their Faith
JNS.org - Avichai Koch says farming is in his blood. He is the son of Holocaust survivors from Europe who immigrated to Israel, where they worked the...
Palestinian Terror Wave Has Israel’s Rabbis Searching for Spiritual Solutions
JNS.org - Their pictures and their names are burned on our hearts—victims of terrorism whose final moments we can’t even imagine. It’s in precisely these times...
This Year Building for Sukkot, Next Year in the Rebuilt Jerusalem
JNS.org - This year was my very first Yom Kippur in Israel. The experience was in some ways similar to Yom Kippur in the U.S., but...
Mass Sukkot Blessing Takes Place at Temple Mount Despite Tension
JNS.org - Fifty-thousand people gathered to pray at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Wednesday as part of a biennial priestly blessing for Sukkot. The Birkat HaCohanim (“priestly blessing”...
The Sukkot Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. The U.S. connection: Columbus Day is celebrated around Sukkot. According to "Columbus Then and Now" (Miles Davidson, 1997, p. 268), Columbus arrived in America on Friday...
‘Shmita’ Sabbatical Year Puts Israel’s ‘Four Species’ Industry in a Bind This Sukkot
JNS.org - Hagai Kirshenbaum is a member of the fourth generation of his family to harvest etrogim (singular: etrog) on a large orchard outside of Rehovot...
Temple Mount Tensions Reach a Boiling Point During Sukkot
JNS.org - After the latest Islamic riots on the Temple Mount, Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch warned that further disturbances will prompt Muslims...
International MPs Sound Support for Israel in Psagot Sukkah
PSAGOT - In a sukkah on a hilltop outside Jerusalem, 20 international parliamentarians gathered together at the Psagot winery on Sunday evening, October 12, as part...
Temple Mount Policy Will Treat Muslims and Jews Equally, Minister Says
JNS.org - After the latest Islamic riots on the Temple Mount, Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch warned that further disturbances will prompt Muslims...
Sukkah Consciousness: Living with Vulnerability
JNS.org - The sukkah, even in the Torah, seems to straddle two different ecosystems: the desert and the settled agricultural land. Both are alien...
