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This story took place close to a decade ago. Although it’s about a flying Sukkah, it really began about a week before the holiday, when the stores throughout Jerusalem were selling...

Life was getting rough for Miguel Sanchez. No more were the glory days of “coyotes,” the illegal immigrant smugglers who plied their trade along the porous Mexican-American border. Back then, he...

Photo by Nick Koon We have a wonderful tradition at Rosh Hashanah of eating new fruits of the season. What did you choose? Pomegranate? Apple? And what will be suspended from...

Starry, starry nights, eating meals in the Sukkah with its leafy roof partly open to the star-studded sky, and enjoying a variety of vegetables and fruits from the final fall harvest...

As Jews, we are accustomed to live in calendar confusion, oscillating between two major Jewish New Years (Tishrei/Nissan), two Judgment Days (Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur), . It’s not...

We say it; it seems like it fits – but one suspects that we are essentially clueless (an admitted projection) to its Sukkos significance. I refer to the strange recitation at...

Customarily, the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh is called “Shabbat Mevarchim” because after the Torah reading the coming of the new month is announced and then a special prayer is said (Rema...

As we get ready for Yom Kippur, I have a question: What is Kol Nidrei all about? Why do we say Kol Nidrei on Yom Kippur? Or, more importantly, why is...

For this mitzvah that I am prescribing to you today is not too mysterious or remote from you. It is not in heaven, to say, “Who will go up...

Tzimmes is a specialty of Ashkenazi Jews, while tajines come from Morocco. Although they have such different origins, these slow-cooked entrees share many qualities. Both make festive fare for Rosh Hashanah....