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Today on Jewcy: Get some feminist imagery into your sukkah!

by
Gabriela Geselowitz
October 03, 2017

In addition to being the title of an adorable Israeli film, the ushpizin are the Biblical figures who are the symbolic guests in your sukkah; there’s one for each night of the holiday. And surprise, surprise, they’re all male. So, for the past several years, there have been attempts to add great female figures, Biblical or historic, into the fray. The ushpizot, if you will.

But who might these ushpizot be, and how can you get beautiful, professionally made posters of them into your sukkah, STAT?

Gabriela Geselowitz is a writer and the former editor of Jewcy.com.