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This year is the 25th anniversary of Facets of Faith. To observe this, every so often, I’m choosing a column from the past to rerun. This one ran originally on Oct. 3, 2009. Details, such as the dates ...

When my oldest son was three, he came home from preschool after Yom Kippur and saw that we’d built our sukkah. His excitement was palpable; he did a little dance that I still refer to, 21 years later, ...

The Baal HaTanya writes that each year after the shofar is blown, the hidden light of “Mochin,” a new intellectual wherewithal, descends into the world, to be revealed on the holiday of Sukkot. G-d ...

(RNS) — As we wrap up this year’s celebration of Sukkot, I’d like to give this relatively unknown holiday its due. In most of the modern Jewish world, Sukkot is the anticlimactic finale of the High ...

(The Conversation) — Sukkot is a Jewish festival that follows right on the heels of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Judaism’s High Holy Days. The harvest holiday, which begins on Sept. 29, 2023, lasts ...

Like many Jewish practices, the harvest festival of Sukkot largely takes place at home − meaning families can incorporate many meaningful traditions. Eileen Gu may compete for China, but the only ...

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