Sukkot

Sukkot

  • Audio Interview: Sukkot
    By Rabbi Vivian Schirn, Rabbi Shawn Zevit
    Rabbi Vivian Schirn discusses the origins, development and practices of the fall Festival of Booths, with attention to home and synagogue celebration in this episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit, the first regularly scheduled Reconstructionist radio show in the history of the movement.
  • Dvar Torah: Sukkot: Yom Kippur's Counterbalance
    By Rabbi Michael Cohen
    Imagine Yom Kippur, the synagogue packed for the holiest day of the year. The anticipation of the day is upon everyone as they take their seats. But suppose something different occurs: Mahzorim for Sukkot are ...
  • Program Description: Tzedakah And The Jewish Holidays: Giving For Social Change
    By Rabbi Shawn Zevit
    Ideas for giving opportunities throughout the Jewish year. Connects each Jewish holiday to the concept of tzedakah and recommends a relevant type of benficiary to support.
  • Ritual: Reconstructionist Sukkot
    By JRF Midwest Congregations
    For Sukkot of 5767 (2006) a group of JRF's Midwest congregations decided to collaboratively create a Sukkot supplement to be used in their synagogues. The idea was to bring ritually oriented folk together from multiple synagogues to create something of value that all these synagogues, and others could use. Then JRF Regional Director Dina April functioned as organizer and editor for the project.