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Welcoming Everyone into Our Booths: Defending Transgender Rights This Sukkot

Jacob Greenblatt

How to Prevent Halloween from Overwhelming Your Family

Rabbi Phyllis Sommer

Halloween brings me a bit of stress each year. On a very basic level, I'm just not a fan of this holiday that, in recent years, seems to have become so much bigger than ever before.

9 Things to Know About Sukkot

Even though the High Holidays are over, there is still plenty of celebrating to do. Here are nine things to know about Sukkot, the holiday that follows Yom Kippur.

The Climax of Sukkot and the Profound Joy of the Journey

September 29, 2018

More than any other Jewish holiday or ritual, I love the audacity of Sukkot. After the many profound words and seemingly endless prayers of the High Holidays, Sukkot offers a very different holiday mode. The main theme and ultimate goal of the holiday is to achieve climactic joy throughout the holiday, including the intermediate days, which are known as Chol HaMo-eid Sukkot.

Sukkot: Festival of Voting Booths

Rabbi Scott M. Nagel

Rabbi Susan N. Shankman

Rabbi Randi Nagel

It is a tradition that we observe as Americans as well, as we enter into booths each fall (and occasionally at other moments during the year) in order to make our voices heard and exercise our right to vote.

Sukkot and the Challenge of Refugees

Rabbi Michel Schlesinger

A young man came to a rabbi for a chat.

“I’ve bought a new car” said the young man to the rabbi.

“Congratulations,” he replied.

How to Say the Sukkot Blessings and Shake the Lulav

Rabbi Sari Laufer demonstrates how to hold the lulav and etrog, how to say the blessings, and how to wave it for the holiday of Sukkot. View all of the Sukkot blessings.

Lulav and etrog lying on a bright blue background

Sukkot, Diversity, and Unity: How Each of Us is Like the Four Species

While all Jewish holidays serve as great opportunities to practice audacious hospitality, Sukkot has always stood out to me as the most audaciously hospitable of Jewish holidays. What other time of year do we build a temporary makeshift house through the commandment of inviting ushpizin (guests)...

When do you light yizkor (memorial) candles on Yom Kippur? Do you light candles only for immediate family members?

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Rabbi Julie Zupan

Rabbi Julie Zupan answers - When do you light yizkor (memorial) candles on Yom Kippur? Do you light candles only for immediate family members?

How Two Canadians Came to Understand and Celebrate American Thanksgiving

Cantor Aviva Marer and Rabbi David Z. Vaisberg

As Canadian clergy working in a Reform congregation in New Jersey,