Sukkot

Sukkot 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, September 25, and ends at nightfall on Friday, October 2. Find recipes, events, ideas for your sukkah and more.

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“Etrog” Lemon Sandwich Cookies

By Elana Berusch

Plus Kids

Sukkot Citrus Mobile Craft Project

By Renee Henrich

Tradition

Sukkot Recipes

By JewishBoston

Plus Kids

Gratitude Cloud Craft

By Boston-Area Jewish Education Program (BJEP)

Events

NextGen in the West End: Decorate the Sukkah

Sep 24, 5:30 pm

Boston Synagogue, Boston

Free

The Boston Synagogue

Thursday, September 24 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Boston Synagogue55 Martha RdBoston, MA 02114

Requires registration Free

Community-Wide Sukkot Services 5787

Up Next: Sep 25, 5:15 pm

Temple Israel, Boston

Free

Temple Israel of Boston

Friday, September 25 5:15pm - 8:00pm

Temple Israel477 Longwood AvenueBoston, MA 02215

Requires registration Free

Family Sukkot Services and Shabbat Mishpachah

Sep 25, 5:15 pm

Temple Israel, Boston

Free

Temple Israel of Boston

Friday, September 25 5:15pm - 7:30pm

Temple Israel477 Longwood AvenueBoston, MA 02215

Requires registration Free

Community Dinner Under the Stars in the Sukkah

Sep 25, 5:30 pm

The Boston Synagogue, Boston

$18

The Boston Synagogue

Friday, September 25 5:30pm - 8:30pm

The Boston Synagogue55 Martha RdBoston, MA 02114

Requires registration $18.00

Top Pick

Sukkot Celebration for Families With Young Children

Sep 26, 9:30 am

Temple Israel, Boston

Sukkot celebration for families with young children

Free

Temple Israel of Boston

Saturday, September 26 9:30am - 11:30am

Temple Israel477 Longwood AvenueBoston, MA 02215

Requires registration Free

Games in the Sukkah

Sep 26, 1:30 pm

Congregation Beth El, Sudbury

Free

Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley

Saturday, September 26 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Congregation Beth El105 Hudson RdSudbury, MA 01776

Requires registration Free

Sukkot Celebration & Religious School Open House

Sep 27, 9:30 am

Temple Reyim, Newton

Free

Congregation Dorshei Tzedek

Sunday, September 27 9:30am - 12:00pm

Temple Reyim1860 Washington StNewton, MA 02466

Requires registration Free

Sukkot & Harvest Festival at Congregation Beth El

Sep 27, 10:30 am

Congregation Beth El, Sudbury

Free

Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley

Sunday, September 27 10:30am - 12:00pm

Congregation Beth El105 Hudson RdSudbury, MA 01776

Requires registration Free

Evolve in Burlington Sukkot Schmooze

Sep 27, 10:30 am

Decorations inside a Sukkah during the Jewish holiday celebration of Sukkoth

$18

Hadassah Northeast

Sunday, September 27 10:30am - 12:30pm

See event description for location

Requires registration $18.00 - $126.00

Family Fun in the Sukkah

Sep 27, 11:00 am

Boston Synagogue, Boston

Etrog Lulav Sukkot Alexander Vorotyntsev iStock

Free

The Boston Synagogue

Sunday, September 27 11:00am - 1:00pm

Boston Synagogue55 Martha RdBoston, MA 02114

Requires registration Free

Sukkot Bubble Fest With PJ Library & Welcome Baby

Sep 27, 3:00 pm

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$20

JCC Greater Boston

Sunday, September 27 3:00pm - 4:30pm

See event description for location

Requires registration $20.00

Food & Recipes

9/30/2022 Top Pick

“Etrog” Lemon Sandwich Cookies

By Elana BeruschFor JewishBoston

9/27/2022 Top Pick

Fig Tarte Tatin With Honey

By Chanie ApfelbaumFor JewishBoston

9/23/2022 Top Pick

Shawarma Chicken Pita Pockets With Honey-Roasted Carrots

By Dini KleinFor JewishBoston

Hawaij Roast Chicken Tagine With Chickpeas, Zucchini, Olives and Butternut Squash

9/15/2022 Top Pick

Roast Chicken Tagine With Chickpeas, Zucchini & Butternut Squash

By Johanna RothenbergFor JewishBoston

9/17/2021 Top Pick

Harvest Barley Soup

By Marjorie DrukerFor JewishBoston

9/14/2021 Top Pick

Strudel Recipe Roundup

By JewishBoston

Crafts & DIY

9/25/2025 Top Pick

Sukkot Chain of Social Justice

Print out the activity, color in the strips and form a chain. You’ll find questions to spark conversations about building a better world.

By American Jewish World Service

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9/2/2022 Top Pick

A PJ Library Family Guide for Starting the Jewish New Year

“A Time to Grow” has myriad creative ways to connect with the High Holidays, including crafts, step-by-step celebrations, blessings and more!

By PJ Library

9/20/2021 Top Pick

Gratitude Cloud Craft

Get the whole family involved in reflecting on the fall holidays with this Shemini Atzeret craft.

By Heather RenetzkyFor Boston-Area Jewish Education Program (BJEP)

9/12/2021 Top Pick

Sukkot Citrus Mobile Craft Project

By Renee HenrichFor JewishBoston

10/6/2020 Top Pick

Sukkot Coloring Book

Sukkot is a holiday to celebrate the harvest, create artwork and spend time in the sukkah. Now you can also color in the sukkah!

By Haggadot.com

9/27/2020 Top Pick

20 Decorations to Spice Up Your Sukkah

By JewishBoston

9/2/2020 Top Pick

“Here for” the High Holidays

“Here for,” powered by OneTable, is a new community-wide platform supporting home-hosted and virtual gatherings from Rosh Hashanah through Simchat Torah.

By Here for

Traditions & Rituals

4/10/2025 Top Pick

A Resource for Passover and Beyond

Beta version of a blessing builder on Ma’yan Tikvah.

By Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope

10/11/2024 Top Pick

This Remarkable Citrus Can Fetch Upwards of $1,000

The etrog graces Jewish Sukkot celebrations the world over, but what is its significance, and why is it so expensive?

By Joan NathanFor Saveur

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9/20/2024 Top Pick

Sukkot x Shabbat Guide

This guide will take you through Sukkot Shabbat, highlighting the special additions of this nature-based holiday.

By OneTable

10/19/2022 Top Pick

Taanit Behab: Not So Fast

Can a scarcely-known Jewish fasting tradition go viral? In this day and age, anything can happen—just ask the Miami Boys Choir.

By Dan Brosgol

10/5/2020 Top Pick

A Sukkot Meditation for 2020

How can we foster feelings of peace and comfort in this time?

By Erica Streit-KaplanFor Hebrew College

10/4/2020 Top Pick

Sukkot 2020 Resources

Create some timely, fun and meaningful dialogue with these downloadable discussion questions for families.

By Areyvut

9/29/2020 Top Pick

Celebrating Sukkot in a Pandemic

Dr. Bruce Weinstock, a pediatric emergency physician who has a master’s degree in public health, advises on sukkah protocol.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

9/2/2020 Top Pick

“Here for” the High Holidays

“Here for,” powered by OneTable, is a new community-wide platform supporting home-hosted and virtual gatherings from Rosh Hashanah through Simchat Torah.

By Here for

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4/29/2014

Ask A Rabbi: How Are Passover and Shavuot Connected?

Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot are the three biblical pilgrimage festivals that celebrate the seasonal harvests: spring, summer and fall.

By Rabbi Dan LibenFor JewishBoston

Voices From Our Community

10/2/2025 Top Pick

Touch the Earth, Touch the Sky

Or, how a Zoom class with two tweens made us all realize that a sukkah is both a Canaanite life hack and a connection to our transient history.

By Dan Brosgol

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10/17/2024 Top Pick

With an Eye to the Sky, Sukkot Celebrates the Harvest Season

These next few days, perhaps take your own page from the holiday and look up at the clear skies ahead appreciating the season and all of its bounty.

By Dave EpsteinFor The Boston Globe

10/16/2024 Top Pick

A Childhood Synagogue, a Talmudic Classroom and ‘Our Town’

Someday, somewhere in the back row, I’ll sit with Moses, my father and Emily Gibbs, smiling.

By Joshua HammermanFor Religion News Service

10/19/2022

Open Walls of the Sukkah

Coming to a brand new school as an English language learner takes courage and a little bit of faith.

By Shira DeenerFor JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School

9/15/2021 Top Pick

Sukkot and Sheltering the Homeless

By Cindy Rubin

10/14/2020 Top Pick

The Sea Is Never Full

Fourteen years of going to Maine in the fall is one of our most cherished family traditions.

By Dan Brosgol

A white picket fence with short focus and an autumn background.

10/13/2020 Top Pick

A Shofar, Sukkah, COVID-19 Tale

This is a story of Jewish discovery; or, more precisely, Jews discovering fellow Jews in their own backyard. Literally.

By Ruth Kaplan

10/4/2020 Top Pick

Sukkot 5781: Foot Crossing

Sukkot offers us a reminder about the sanctity of being outside and crossing wide open spaces.

By Dan Brosgol

10/16/2019 Top Pick

Building Our Sukkot, Rebuilding Ourselves

By Deborah Skolnick Einhorn For Hebrew College

10/2/2018 Top Pick

Flushing Our Prayers Down the Drain

This year, before we cry out to God for rain, let’s start by not flushing the answer to our prayers down the drain!

By Rabbi Baruch HaLevi

Community News

10/3/2022 Top Pick

The Vilna Shul Celebrates Sukkot With a Custom Sukkah, Special Exhibition

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

10/5/2020 Top Pick

Opening Our Tents: Welcoming Domestic Abuse Survivors

In this era of social distancing, what can we do to welcome isolated survivors of domestic abuse?

By Elizabeth Schön VainerFor Jewish Family & Children’s Service

9/29/2020 Top Pick

Celebrating Sukkot in a Pandemic

Dr. Bruce Weinstock, a pediatric emergency physician who has a master’s degree in public health, advises on sukkah protocol.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

10/8/2017 Top Pick

Celebrating Sukkot? Let the Sukkah Come to You

By The Boston Globe

Arts & Culture

10/2/2024 Top Pick

Contemplating Home Through Music

By Laura Conrad MandelFor Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture

12/8/2022 Top Pick

This Prolific South Shore Kids’ Author Is Also a Rabbi

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

10/3/2022 Top Pick

The Vilna Shul Celebrates Sukkot With a Custom Sukkah, Special Exhibition

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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10/4/2020 Top Pick

My Sukkah Soundtrack

The JArts Spotify playlist “Autumn Sweater for Sukkot” can help recapture that feeling of being and appreciating the outdoors in the fall.

By Joey BaronFor Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture

9/18/2017 Top Pick

The Best Sukkot Pumpkin Ever

Newton author Laya Steinberg’s new book teaches important lessons.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

10/4/2016

Sukkot, Without the Sukkah

If you don’t have the space in your life for a sukkah, here are some meaningful and creative ways to celebrate the Jewish harvest festival.

By Laura Conrad MandelFor Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture

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10/2/2014

Muse & Schmooze: A Delicious 5775, Boston Style

From Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur to Sukkot, we sure spend a lot of time in the fall reflecting on the past, present and future.

By Laura Conrad MandelFor JewishBoston

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8/22/2013

Jammin’ with Josh: Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot Playlist for Kids

It’s Josh of “Josh and the Jamtones” here with my very own “Jammin’ with Jew!” playlist for Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot.

By Josh ShriberFor CJP Families with Young Children Initiative

9/27/2012

Celebrate Sukkot with a Holiday-Themed Mystery Book

First-time author Susan Axe-Bronk (and mom to two kids) was so inspired by the holiday that she decided to write a children’s book all about it.

By Kali FoxmanFor CJP Families with Young Children Initiative