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On Tuesday, those who follow the Jewish religion marked Yom Kippur, the most holy of the high holy days, the day of atonement. It followed the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana. Those holidays are now ...

On Friday, the Jewish holiday Sukkot will begin, running until the following Friday on October 9. It's a week-long celebration, also known as the Feast of Booths, or the Feast of Tabernacles.

Sukkot is my favorite Jewish holiday, especially because it comes right after my least favorite ones. There’s a lot I love about Sukkot. First, there’s what there isn’t. Sukkot has almost no ...

When you weave through the clumsy or wonderful (depending on your religious identity and aesthetic) accoutrements of Sukkot, when you observe every ritual and say every word, you can reduce this ...

“Shtupping” (Yiddish for sex) is not what most associate with the harvest holiday. I thought Sukkot (literally “booths”) — meant decorating tents that evoke the shelters built by the newly-freed ...

“What exactly is lost when you lose home and what is gained when you recover it” asks the emeritus Jewish chaplain at Yale University. This story was originally published on My Jewish Learning. (JTA) ...

One of my closest friends from childhood, who is of Russian descent, was recently at my 3-year-old daughter’s birthday party here in Los Angeles. After the party, as my wife and I collapsed on the ...