Sukkot: Gathering & Thanking
It was great to see so many people at the first annual Sukkot Family Harvest Festival! Sukkot is a holiday of multiple names and meanings....
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Maiden Sukkah Taught Us How to Work Together as Family
Blame it on Shalom Sesame. Building a sukkah in our front yard this year became an imperative after our 3-year-old saw a Sesame Street video...
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Occupy Judaism Gains Support, Recognition at Occupy Boston
The major holidays have come and gone, and Jewish Bostonians are hanging up their Simchat Torah dancing shoes, putting their Sukkot into storage, and beginning...
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Occupying Judaism at Occupy Boston
For the past few weeks, hundreds of Bostonians have made Dewey Square their temporary residence as they stand in solidarity with the Occupy Boston movement....
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Are You Ready for Some Football? Sukkot Cranberry Bread
There's a little tradition that we have in our household that has its origin on a sleepless night in the fall of 2003. Back...
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How-To Videos for Sukkot!
We're midway through the holiday of Sukkot, probably the most physical of the Jewish holidays, and definitely up there on the list of odd customs....
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Sukkot Kids' Activities
Sukkot, which begins tonight at sundown, refers to the Jewish festival of giving thanks for the fall harvest, as well as the commemoration of the...
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Simchat Torah 101
I’m tapping my toes under my desk, dancing down the hallways, and dreaming about party time, which can only mean one thing—Simchat Torah is right...
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Simple Joys of Slings and Sukkos
Sukkot starts this Wednesday night, coincidentally in the middle of International Babywearing Week 2011. Sukkot is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a time when...
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Why Sukkot might be better than Purim
Both holidays are about being joyous, celebration, and sharing your joy with community. Purim focused on the joy of not getting killed off as a...
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