Succot

Tamar Festival turns 24: The popular Dead Sea musical extravaganza returns on Succot

The five-day event kicks off in style with iconic pop-rock singer Shlomo Artzi fronting the gala opener at Masada – the festival’s main venue – with Aviv Gefen and The Friends of Natasha guesting.

 SHLOMO ARTZI is one of the superstars appearing at this year’s Tamar Festival.
A man examines an Etrog as ultra orthodox Jews shop the four species, for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, October 6, 2022.

Why do most Asian Jews use imported etrogs on Sukkot?

A man passes assembled succot in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She’arim in Jerusalem

Bnei Akiva builds succahs for seniors, disabled people throughout Israel

Letters

Letters to the editor: October 3rd, 2018


The holidays are over: Take it easy with easy dishes

Although most of us consumed a tremendous amount of sweets over the holidays, Shabbat is still Shabbat and so we must have at least a simple cake.

Simple shabbat cake

Harvest for the World

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We need a new model of leadership to change the Jewish world

Let’s take it from the theoretical to the practical.

‘FROM THE moment the first messages of The Shabbat Project went out on YouTube and on Facebook, individuals in communities around the globe responded to the call by establishing their own grassroots committees, working groups and action and task teams to bring the project to their communities

It rained on Rivlin’s sukka, but didn’t wash it out

President Rivlin greets Israelis in his Jerusalem Sukka.

President Rivlin greets Israelis in his Jerusalem Sukka.

A perfect Sukkot

From a place of shock and death, I was shown and given life. The sukka was the portal.

A WOMAN decorates her sukka ahead of the holiday.

Egotism and the etrog

We talk of waving the lulav, but the most interesting fruit is the etrog.

An ultra-Orthodox Jew inspects an etrog

It takes a succa

Remembering Sue Tourkin Komet, who passed away on January 4.

Sue Tourkin Komet with the Wonder Pot model succa, recalling the cakes baked in wonder pots by young immigrants for the year following the Yom Kippur War (1973)

A farewell to Tishrei

With grace from above and thanks to the incredible efforts of overt and covert security personnel, we were privileged to celebrate the holidays peacefully.

A shofar

Celebration of water

Delighting in the gifts of the physical world and realizing our vulnerability to the vagaries of nature.

Art by Pepe Fainberg

Analysis: The holidays are over for the government

The headaches will already begin Sunday for Netanyahu, who will meet with the heads of the parties in his governing coalition.

Hoshana Raba, the seventh day of Succot, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Walking and talking in Jerusalem

This year saw tens of thousands of Israelis and visitors from around the world brave the traffic en route to the capital over Succot to take part in the annual Jerusalem March.

The Jerusalem March