Sukkot
Jewish diaspora mourns attack on Israel, but carries on by celebrating holidays
By Amy Taxin and Bobby Caina Calvan — October 9, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — At synagogues around the globe, the attacks by Hamas brought a somber tone.
Despite terrorist attacks, the people of Israel live
By Joshua Stanton and Olivia Brodsky — October 7, 2023
(RNS) — The conflagration of violence will likely transform the Middle East for the worse.
God gets needy, too
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 2, 2023
This year, let's keep God company. Because God is also lonely.
How to bend and not break
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 17, 2022
(RNS) — From the most important word in the history of American cinema ... a lesson in life itself.
Sukkot, mother of Jewish holidays
By Mark Silk — October 14, 2022
(RNS) — Lesser known than other Jewish holidays, its scope includes the agricultural cycle and the messianic age.
Do it today
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 9, 2022
(RNS) — An obscure quote in an old Polish synagogue sent me on the search for the meaning of life.
My evangelical Sukkot saviors
By Avi Shafran — October 9, 2022
(RNS) — Every year as the Jewish holiday comes around, I remember Anthony.
Sukkot is the Jewish holiday that teaches us the joys of doing without
By Avi Shafran — September 20, 2021
(RNS) — Living in a hut teaches us that what we really have is not what we own, but what we are.
What are the Jewish High Holy Days? A look at Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and a month of celebrating renewal and moral responsibility
By Samuel L. Boyd — September 1, 2021
(The Conversation) — As the Jewish community prepares to celebrate the High Holy Days, a scholar of the Bible explains their history and why they might offer consolation in times of uncertainty.
Memo to Democrats: Forget the purity game!
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 18, 2020
(RNS) — The Democratic Party needs to heed Leonard Cohen’s warning: 'Forget your perfect (political) offering.’
In this Latino LA neighborhood, Jews commemorate an ancient biblical holiday
By Alejandra Molina — October 18, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — More than a dozen people gathered Sunday (Oct. 13) in Boyle Heights — a working-class Latino neighborhood on the east side of Los Angeles that was once a thriving Jewish enclave — to observe the biblical holiday of Sukkot. It has been more than 30 years since this tradition was celebrated in this community.
On Sukkot, think of the Kurds
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 17, 2019
(RNS) — While, as Tom Petty sang, we don’t have to live like refugees, we do have to remember what it means to live like a refugee.
What would Fred Rogers have thought about Ford v. Kavanaugh?
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 28, 2018
What would Fred Rogers have made of yesterday?
Praise God and pass the plasticware
By Paul O'Donnell — September 26, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Home to the holidays for three religions, Israel uses more plastic cups per capita than any other people in the world.
Slideshow: A time of colorful festivals
By Sally Morrow — October 17, 2016
(RNS) One marks the harvest, others are festivals of lights. Now and in the coming weeks, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and Yoruba are celebrating different holidays, shown in this slideshow.
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