Word: sukkot
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Naiburg said she already has plans for her term as senior tutor. She hopes to organize an interfaith celebration of the Jewish peace holiday Sukkot in the house...
With autumn absent from our daily urban lives, we have to make a special effort to take notice of it. Jews have the advantage of the holiday of Sukkot, which starts tonight. By dining outside in a booth, under a roof of branches, the Sukkot holiday forces observant Jews back into contact with nature at a time of year when attention ought to be paid...
...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 for all of creation...
...energy into rationalizations as to whether this act of vandalism does not meet the "standards" (!) of a hate crime is an indictment of our reluctance to face the two facts we all know: It was premeditated and occurred against a Jewish religious structure during the observance of the holiday Sukkot...
...refer to the vandalism of the Hillel sukkah (a temporary structure built and used by Jews in observance of the holiday Sukkot) on the corner of Holyoke and Winthrop Sts. Of course, not every act damaging a Jewish structure can or should be viewed as anti-Semitism. In the past, for example, Hillel's sukkah was damaged when students who did not know the structure's significance allegedly did chin-ups on the supporting bars, causing it to partially collapse. Appropriately, their ignorance was not misconstrued as enmity...