Word: sukkahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a brief afternoon stroll over to the rustic booth that has been in the Dunster courtyard for the past week. The booth is called a sukkah, the traditional temporary Jewish "home" constructed for the seven-day holiday of Sukkot each fall...
Dunster House Senior Tutor Suzi Naiburg has put up the sukkah in the past, but this year the sukkah's presence and use have aroused the ire of some house residents...
...criticisms proceeded on two fronts. One student opposed the very presence of the sukkah, citing it as an example of an inappropriate public religious symbol. Notwithstanding his mildly offensive comments about how "some people in Dunster have influence in the house and can get the courtyard to use for what they support," his position probably speaks to a sizable group of students...
Another group of students raised a more serious objection. They didn't mind the sukkah per se, but they found the "Harvest Festival" that was held in it on Sunday night to be a tasteless, almost cynical manipulation of religious traditions in the name of multicultural diversity. The festival incorporated Jewish, Chinese and neo-pagan ideas about the harvest season. Several Chinese students door-dropped a "silent protest" to residents, arguing that the differences between religious traditions should not be blurred...
...order to justify the sukkah...they had to do the Harvest Moon Festival [which incorporated varying cultures] which targets the larger community," Chun said...