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Sukkot 2025 begins at sundown on Monday, October 6, and ends on Monday, October 13. Find recipes, events, ideas for your sukkah and more.

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“Etrog” lemon sandwich cookies for Sukkot

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“Etrog” Lemon Sandwich Cookies

By Elana Berusch

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Sukkot Citrus Mobile Craft Project

By Renee Henrich

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Sukkot Recipes

By JewishBoston

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Gratitude Cloud Craft

By Boston-Area Jewish Education Program (BJEP)

Events

High Holy Days 101: Sukkot and Simchat Torah

Sep 3, 7:00 pm

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Free

Temple Israel of Boston

Thursday, September 3 7:00pm - 8:00pm

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Steak & Scotch in the Sukkah

Sep 30, 6:00 pm

Temple Emanu-El, Marblehead

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$25

Temple Emanu-El (Marblehead)

Wednesday, September 30 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Temple Emanu-El393 Atlantic AveMarblehead, MA 01945

Requires registration $25.00

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Food & Recipes

“Etrog” lemon sandwich cookies for Sukkot

9/30/2022 Top Pick

“Etrog” Lemon Sandwich Cookies

By Elana BeruschFor JewishBoston

Fig Tart Tatin With Honey

9/27/2022 Top Pick

Fig Tarte Tatin With Honey

By Chanie ApfelbaumFor JewishBoston

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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

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9/17/2021 Top Pick

Harvest Barley Soup

By Marjorie DrukerFor JewishBoston

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9/14/2021 Top Pick

Strudel Recipe Roundup

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Crafts & DIY

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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

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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)

Sukkot Citrus Mobile Featured Image

9/12/2021 Top Pick

Sukkot Citrus Mobile Craft Project

By Renee HenrichFor JewishBoston

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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

Red Grape Light Set

9/27/2020 Top Pick

20 Decorations to Spice Up Your Sukkah

By JewishBoston

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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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Traditions & Rituals

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4/10/2025 Top Pick

A Resource for Passover and Beyond

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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

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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.

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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

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10/4/2020 Top Pick

Sukkot 2020 Resources

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

By Areyvut

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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

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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

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Voices From Our Community

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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9/15/2021 Top Pick

Sukkot and Sheltering the Homeless

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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.

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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.

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.

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10/16/2019 Top Pick

Building Our Sukkot, Rebuilding Ourselves

By Deborah Skolnick Einhorn For Hebrew College

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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

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Community News

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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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10/5/2020 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

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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

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10/8/2017 Top Pick

Celebrating Sukkot? Let the Sukkah Come to You

By The Boston Globe

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Arts & Culture

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10/2/2024 Top Pick

Contemplating Home Through Music

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

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12/8/2022 Top Pick

This Prolific South Shore Kids’ Author Is Also a Rabbi

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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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

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9/18/2017 Top Pick

The Best Sukkot Pumpkin Ever

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

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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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

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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

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