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...Bellanga (Shuli Rand—also the movie’s screenwriter) and his wife Malli (Rand’s real-life wife, Michal Bat Sheva Rand), as they pray for God’s help to find money and a Succah (a temporary, wooden dwelling) to celebrate the Succoth holiday. Miraculously—or so the Bellangas believe—God provides them with a Succah, $1,000, and two guests to share their celebration. These guests are actually escaped convicts and their rude behavior quickly begins to wear out the Bellangas’ Job-like patience. Believing...
...bustling town, suggesting that he may have been less of a country lad than previous scholarship posited. But his native Galilee certainly had nothing to compare with this. Jerusalem was one of the biggest cities between Alexandria and Damascus, with a permanent population of some 80,000. During Passover, Succoth and Shavuoth, the great festivals during which Jews were obligated to make sacrifices at the Temple, between 100,000 and 250,000 visitors (historians differ) would stream down the long city thoroughfare...
Last week's violence brought home the fears of so many that the Intifadah's 1993 curtain call was merely a sign of intermission. More scenes of rock-throwing delinquents clashing with Israeli troops suggest that Act II of this grisly tragedy has arrived. As the Jewish holiday of Succoth began last week, it appeared as if Israelis and Arabs were being handed the second half of their round-trip ticket back to square one. They will doubtless be returning with little nostalgia...
With the Jewish holiday of Succoth beginning this evening and lasting for eight days, the Jewish community of Providence is taking precautionary measures, Schlevin said. "We have special police protection for Jewish buildings and certain homes during the holidays for the next three weeks," he said, adding that "Greater Providence area synagogues are receiving special police protection...
Brown Hillel's holiday succath, a tent-like structure built by Jews every year as part of the fall holiday of Succoth, was destroyed by vandals early Friday morning or late Thursday night, Hillel director Howard Winneman said yesterday...