Succot

Seeing our brothers’ plight: The light Hanukkah demands we bring into the world - opinion

Hanukkah and Vayeshev together reveal that the festival’s light shines only when we open our eyes to our brothers’ struggles and choose loyalty and compassion.

Candles are lit on the eighth night, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, last Hanukkah. The main idea of the holiday is the spiritual illumination of the public sphere, says the writer.
 Rabbi Moshe Hauer with President Isaac Herzog

Orthodox Union’s Rabbi Moshe Hauer dies of sudden heart attack at age 60

 SHLOMO ARTZI is one of the superstars appearing at this year’s Tamar Festival.

Tamar Festival turns 24: The popular Dead Sea musical extravaganza returns on Succot

A man examines an Etrog as ultra orthodox Jews shop the four species, for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, October 6, 2022.

Why do most Asian Jews use imported etrogs on Sukkot?


Celebration of water

Delighting in the gifts of the physical world and realizing our vulnerability to the vagaries of nature.

Art by Pepe Fainberg

Analysis: The holidays are over for the government

The headaches will already begin Sunday for Netanyahu, who will meet with the heads of the parties in his governing coalition.

Hoshana Raba, the seventh day of Succot, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Walking and talking in Jerusalem

This year saw tens of thousands of Israelis and visitors from around the world brave the traffic en route to the capital over Succot to take part in the annual Jerusalem March.

The Jerusalem March

October 25, 2016: Inappropriate publicity

According to police, the intermediate days of the Succot holiday saw a high for recent years in the number of identifiable Jews ascending to the Temple Mount.

Letters

Netanyahu: International community must pressure PA to release succah guests

The four Palestinians were part of a group of 30 Palestinians who had attended a Succot celebration at the home of Efrat council head Oded Revivi on Wednesday morning.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

IN PICTURES: Worshippers flock to Western Wall on 7th day of Succot

Police conduct special security measures in light of the festivities marking the end of Succot in the capital.

Hoshana Raba, the seventh day of Succot, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Bedlam at president’s ‘Open Succa’

“But that’s the way it’s always been.”

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN shakes hands with visitors at the President’s Residence.

IN PICTURES: Thousands flock to Western Wall for traditional priestly blessing

The traditional priestly blessing is said annually in honor of Succot, Passover and Shavuot.

Priestly Blessing at The Western Wall

A feast of biblical proportions

Beit Shemesh banquet treats diners to ancient kosher delicacies – locusts, quail and manna from heaven.

DINERS PHOTOGRAPH the whole spit-roast deer served at the banquet yesterday

Hundreds of thousands take to the outdoors for Succot

Israelis enjoy the parks and forests of the country, despite litter.

A good place for a picnic is the Yatir water reservoir