When New Zealand’s Jews observe Sukkot, religious rules are only half the story
An Australian children’s entertainer tries to cultivate the ceremonial fruit for Sukkot
It’s a perfect holiday for a messed-up, broken-down kind of moment in time
The discontent over unfair coronavirus restrictions in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox communities is boiling over and turning inward
Grandstanding politicians and densely packed devout communities do a dance of mutual incomprehension, Sukkot festivities and schools are shut down
In the midst of a pandemic, finding new meaning in Sukkot
Rokhl’s Golden City: How a strange fruit inspired Yiddish writers
When the start of Sukkot delays a funeral for days and means there can be no shiva, it shakes a mourner’s foundations
Today, for our ongoing series of influential Zionist texts, a double billing from modern Israel: Stav Shaffir’s political activism and Yedidia Stern’s balance of competing identities
A Yiddish phrase that sums up the feeling of being utterly beat at the end of the holidays
Welcoming Zionist Ideas Into the Sukkah, Day 4: ‘A Jewish Feminist-Womanist Appreciation’ from the first Israeli-born woman rabbi
For every day of Sukkot, we’re publishing a text by a different Zionist writer. Today it’s the French-Algerian author, Shmuel Trigano, on the illusions of post-Zionism
For every day of Sukkot, we’ll provide a text by a different Zionist pioneer. Today’s excerpt comes from Berl Katzenelson’s ‘Revolution and Tradition’
From sukkah building and sukkah eating to religious observance, here’s a handy guide to Tablet’s best Sukkot reads
For Sukkot, a story by Israeli novelist Haim Be’er, in a first English translation
I’m not afraid of the bullies anymore
From loss to joy to annoyance, wrestling with the places we come from
Rokhl’s Golden City: In the off-days of Sukkot: not going to shul, going out with observant friends to hear an all-female klezmer band, and visiting Eichmann at a museum
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