Word: sukkah
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About 30 volunteers gathered in the Hillel courtyard yesterday to help decorate the newly-built Sukkah hut in good time for the Sukkot festival this year...
...Sukkah consists of a metal frame draped in white nylon, and the structure is constructed in remembrance of the temporary housing that the Jews depended on during their Biblical journey through the desert, said Hillel chair Ethan M. Tucker...
Human decency is a rare commodity on a campus that often discounts emotions and psychological injury. Harvard has recently seen a spate of anti-Semitic incidents, from the dismantling of Hillel's sukkah to the appearance of swastikas, that have been largely ignored by the campus community...
...orderly, premeditated fashion and the focus of that act is a religious structure for a community of brothers and sisters who have suffered centuries of harassment and horrors? At the present time, these are the only three facts we all know about the vandalism of Hillel's sukkah at the corner of Holyoke and Winthrop...
...second thing we say is a prayer of thanksgiving that, however offensive the vandalism of a religious structure, no one was physically injured by the weakening of that structure. It could have been otherwise for the children who were reported to be the first to enter the sukkah the last Saturday morning of Sukkot. Our thanksgiving does not detract from the gravity of the offense. Rather, it is an expression of our reverence for the safety of every child of God and our hope that through conversation and reflection we can grow in our capacity to respect and care...