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?


Why we should perform ‘tashlich’ on Succot this year

As we enter 5776, tashlich provides us an entry point to begin the process of repentance and repair a broken Jewish community while also healing our own souls.

Men pray next to a plastic pool containing fish as they perform the ‘Tashlich’ ritual in Bnei Brak, in this photo from 2013, ahead of Yom Kippur.

What is the point of ‘hakhel,’ the great gathering?

Material success, even when we are spectacularly successful at it, is not our raison d’être.

Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan

Desert traditions

The ‘Desert Magic’ festival is in its second year and hopes to bring thousands of tourists to visit Beduin communities in the Negev.

Ali Al-Hawashla poses next to a field of herbs at Wadi Attir (left), a 40-hectare project to preserve traditional organic Negev agriculture, which includes the collecting of local seed varieties

Homing in on blue

Through creating rich illustrations that seamlessly weave Hindu, Jewish and American culture elements, Siona Benjamin has used her art to establish her identity and cultivate a sense of belonging.

The artist's cathedral-scale panels, ‘The Four Mothers who Entered Pardes,’ are largely influenced by Jewish and Hindu theology

Searching for Hartman

My father’s sudden death sent me on a journey across Germany, the Deep South and my own backyard here in Israel.

The German village of Barchfeld, to which the writer traveled to unlock the mysteries surrounding the history of his ancestors

A time-honored tradition

The ‘Post’ interviewed two genealogy experts who explained their own personal experiences exploring their family lineage.

The family of Menachem Mendel Komisaruk taken in 1913 in Grafskoy a Jewish agricultural colony in southeast Ukraine

Zionism and wine: A love story

While we happily drink and delight in the Israeli wines that grace dinner tables nationwide, many are unaware of how the origins of the country and the industry itself are interlinked.

The lush Kedesh Valley terrain where the Na’aman Winery is based

In off year for Israel, Morocco is etrog hot spot this Succot

Each August and September, Jewish merchants come from around the world to his remote grove in the highlands of Morocco.

Moroccan Jews hold willows as they celebrate the festival of Succot in a synagogue in the old city of the capital Rabat

MDA: Avoid injuries while preparing for Succot

Injuries are typical surrounding the preparations for the Jewish holiday of Succot

Succa building

The Iran agreement and the 2.5-wall succa

This agreement may be our 2.5- wall succa. It’s a little shaky, and it might not last, but if it is the best that we can build right now, then build it we must.

MDA at succot festival in Netanya