Word: sukkot
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Imagine opening The Crimson opinion page to find a cartoon depicting 4000 rioting Palestinians throwing boulders down onto the heads of Jews worshipping during the Sukkot holiday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Now imagine the caption reading,"Dome of the ROCK indeed...". Such a cartoon would be an insult to Islam and to the Muslim holy site in Jerusalem. I would hope that it never be printed...
...three structures were all sukkahs, temporary shelters built for Sukkot, a holiday commemorating the Jews' 40 years of wandering in the desert...
...sukkah is a temporary shelter constructed for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which commemorates the 40 years of wandering of the Jews in the desert...
...Richard Hirsch of Washington, D.C., a leader of the progressives' union, will stay in Israel for at least several months endeavoring to expand the country's Reform movement. He could point out that in the U.S., more and more Reform families actively celebrate religious holidays such as Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) and recite the traditional Kiddush (sanctification of the wine) on Friday night. Says Hirsch: "Even the Orthodox in America don't call us goyim [Hebrew for gentiles] any more." It may take a while for their Israeli counterparts to change their minds...
...Jews of Jerusalem danced last week in the synagogues and in the streets, bearing in their arms the scrolls of the Torah as they celebrated the end of the thanksgiving period of Sukkot.* The dancers were mostly men, but a few congregations allowed women to join in and carry the scrolls-to the bitter disapproval of the Orthodox. Women are forbidden to touch the Torah by an injunction of Halakah, that vast body of law that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously...