Sukkot

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• US Postal Service Issues New Chanukah Stamp

  
  Holiday Rap - Holidays on the Net Holiday Blog — Authority: 143
  For 2009 the US Postal Service is issuing a new design for this year’s Chanukah stamp. This year’s Menorah design is the 3rd in the Chanukah holiday series. The new 2009 Hanukkah design features a photograph of a menorah with nine lit candles. The menorah was designed by Lisa Regan of the Garden Deva Sculpture ...
  2 days ago

• Sukkot 2009

  
  Trotz.com — Authority: 127
  Sam and Amy decorate our 2nd-ever attempt at a Sukkah back in October. We ‘repurposed’ a general use shade/shelter tent we picked up at Target by removing the roof, hanging muslin from the sides, and finding branches around the ‘hood. Worked quite well, until the rains came ;-).
  3 days ago

• Israeli blockade strangling Gaza agriculture

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 141
  By Mya Guarnieri * The ongoing Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip prevents Palestinian farmers from exporting their goods. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages) Recently, Israel announced that it would import palm fronds from the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The move came at the behest of Minister of Religious ...
  1 week ago

• Back on track~

  
  Homeschool Journal Dot Net — Authority: 150
  It’s been a busy holiday season- we have started a weekly art class called “Hebrew through the Arts” when we learn about Jewish Holidays and Customs as well as the Hebrew letters all through the arts. So far, the kids absolutely love it- check out what we have been up to! I cut out the shape of a Shofar, we ...
  2 weeks ago

• RETURN TO EGYPT - WITH SENTINEL ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT MARIO URIARTE

  
  Horse Racing Tips and Horse Racing Results — Authority: 157
  BY MARIO URIARTE Sentinel Israel Correspondent Mario Uriarte © 2009 The Ride Rob, Hannah and I took turns posing in front of the “Welcome to Egypt” sign as we crossed the border. We were on break for Sukkot and thought the best way to enjoy the commemoration of the exodus from Egypt was to visit Egypt. Leviticus ...
  2 weeks ago

• Battle with an Etrog, Wild Things, and a Biologicical Clock

  
  Most Recent Posts — Authority: 600
  By Amelia Cohen-Levy Friday morning, October 16, 2009. Mighty Mouses 67thbirthday. The mail arrives with an unexpected package from mom--its an etrog.Flashback a few years--my mother and I went to the Jewish film festival in Houston, TX.Theres a film about Sukkot. Whatmatters is this: I learned that if a woman wants ...
  3 weeks ago

• ModernTribe: PunkTorah Friday!

  
  ModernTribe's Jewish Life and Style — Authority: 119
  Hey, this is Patrick. In addition to working with ModernTribe.com and singing in the Jewish punk rock band Can!!Can, I do PunkTorah, a website and activism project I founded last April. PunkTorah strives to provide meaningful Jewish spiritual connections to progressive people. The project includes weekly videos, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Your Puppy Racist?

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 504
  If you thought that I...and Newsweek ...had flipped our lids with the "Is Your Baby Racist?" post" then you might not be able to handle this story. Over Sukkot, I heard a tale of (woe) told by a white Jewish couple in Los Angeles who say their puppy is "RACIST" (their words).Yes, you read that right. The dog, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Heksher Tzedek Is OK With Esrog Rip-Offs?

  
  Route 17 — Authority: 113
  For all the concern by the Heksher Tzedek rabbis and scolds that one of the criteria for kashrut be the economic honesty and decency of the enterprise, such as workers being paid 115 percent of the minimum wage, what are to make of the fact that there was not one Heksher Tzedek community that I [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Christians (and Controversy) Descend on Israel for Sukkot

  
  Most Recent Posts — Authority: 600
  By Christiane-Marie Sarah Jerusalem was busy last week as thousands descended on the city forSukkot and the annual Jerusalem March. This years march drew around70,000 people, up from the 35,000 who participated in 2008. 20,000police stood by on Tuesday to oversee the controversial event, afterwhat has already been a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Vilna Gaon: Why Is Succos On The 15th of Tishrei?

  
  ShalomNewYork.com — Authority: 132
  “We all know that Succos should really be on Pesach because that is when we came out of Mitzrayim. The Vilna Gaon says however that the 15th day of Tishrei is really the appropriate time. Succos commemorates the Nes that Hashem surrounded us with the Ananei HaKavod and protected us in the harsh desert. When did we ...
  4 weeks ago

• Simchat Beit HaShoeva in Toldot Aharon

  
  Shearim — Authority: 438
  B"H The below video is from three years ago but never mind.  The Tish and the Sukkot celebrations in Toldot Aharon are always packed. Now the group has a new and thus bigger Synagogue.
  4 weeks ago

• "Hakafot" in Dushinsky

  
  Shearim — Authority: 438
  In the middle: The Dushinsky Rebbe B"H Israel began celebrating its Simchat Torah (last day of Sukkot) last Friday night (Erev Shabbat). If you are ever in Jerusalem on Erev Simchat Torah, dont make the mistake going to the Kotel (Western Wall) in order to see some wild celebrations. In case you do so, ...
  4 weeks ago

• VeSamachta

  
  Shearim — Authority: 438
  B"H We are commended to be HAPPY during Sukkot. The entire eight (nine in the Diaspora) days we have to be happy. Can you imagine being happy all those days ? The Vilna Gaon said that this is one of the most difficult Mitzvot the Jewish people got: Being happy a few days on a row.
  5 weeks ago

• The Celebrations start

  
  Shearim — Authority: 438
  B"H Walking through Mea Shearim last night was more than interesting. First of all, I noticed the new Toldot Aharon Synagogue right next to their old one. The new building looks really posh I have to say. It is also supposed to be bigger, as, within the past years, the group grew. The Toldot Aharon are quite ...
  5 weeks ago

• Sukkot Tent in Town

  
  Citynoise.org Latest Articles — Authority: 437
  Posted in: Monroeville, USA by Franny Wentzel . Brooklynites probably see these all the time but its a rare thing to see a Sukkot booth upstate. I pass this one every time I go to the park...This one used to be on the front lawn but it seems theyd planted bushes on its old spot...Would make for an interesting ...
  5 weeks ago

• Sukkot 5770

  
  Not Quite Perfect — Authority: 127
  Had a bit of fun with this one. If you are wondering what an etrog is, and what it has to do with Sukkot, the Wikipedia Article on the topic might help. The huge version is available at the preceding link. Todays Gratitude Item: That Sukkot is such a long festival - giving me plenty of time to post this ...
  5 weeks ago

• (October 03) Today were celebrating . . .  Sukkot (Jewish)

  
  Holiday Rap - Holidays on the Net Holiday Blog — Authority: 143
  Sukkot (Jewish) With the final blowing of the Shofar, The Jewish High Holy Days draw to a close and the focus of the Jewish community shifts from the solemnness of Yom Kippur to the jubilant celebration of the festival of Sukkot. The festival of Sukkot, also known as Chag’ha Succot, the “Feast of Booths” (or ...
  5 weeks ago

• Happy Sukkot!

  
  SmellyBlog — Authority: 124
  Etrog , originally uploaded by Ayala Moriel . Dear SmellyBlog Readers, Wishing you a happy Sukkot and harvest season. This year I have bought my own citron fruit for the first time and Im very excited! I will be posting pics and tell you more about my citron odyssey , as Im on a journey for the 2nd year now to ...
  5 weeks ago

• Happy New Year

  
  JudeoXian — Authority: 91
  Cooler weather is almost here. I can feel it in the air. Here in Illinois, the corn is starting to ripen and dry out. This week in Morton, the annual Pumpkin Festival begins tonight. Fall, and hence Rosh Hashanah and the rest High Holy Days are approaching. It is truly my favorite time of the year. Many readers of my ...
  8 weeks ago

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