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?


Sukkot Guests

The Jerusalem Post

Getting cyberdelic

Italian company eVolution Dance Theater aims to wow audiences around the country

eVolution Dance Theater

Building ‘The Eternal Sukkah’

Israeli artists Sala-manca construct a succa from the materials of a Beduin home. The structure goes on view at the Israel Museum this month

The original Beduin house purchased by Sala-manca.

Shofar Sho-good: Customs authorities catch man smuggling shofars and etrogs

Jerusalem man tries to bring in goods ahead of the holidays under the noses of airport customs officials.

Shofars and Etrogs seized by Israel Customs Authority

Growing pains: the children of trauma

Moving on after the loss of a parent, army orphans find strength together.

Campers participating in the four-day Otzma outing get together for a picture on the last day.

The struggle continues

Women of the Wall and non-Orthodox groups are confident of success in their battle with haredi religious authorities.

People pray ahead of Yom Kippur on the roof of a seminary overlooking the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City in 2012.

Grapevine: Signing in the succa

UN Chief invited President Rivlin to come to New York in January to address the UN on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

President Rivlin meets UN Chief Ban Ki-moon

In my own write: The beauty of fragility

The succa is an object lesson in the importance of contrast in human life.

Succa painting

Tradition Today: ‘After the holidays’

As the holidays end, it’s time to stop putting off our responsibilities and return to our normal schedules.

Illustrative: A woman sleeps under an umbrella in Hong Kong.

Grapevine: An age-old problem

Jerusalem has the largest number of senior citizens in the country.

Melabev organisation, Jerusalem