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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 476

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An anti-Zionist Jewish group constructs a 'Gaza solidarity sukkah' on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for the holiday of Sukkot, 2024. (Courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace via JTA)
November 3, 2024, 4:01 am
US campus ‘Gaza solidarity sukkahs’ ignite debates on anti-Zionist Jews’ observance
While almost certainly intended to be provocative, ceremonial huts at universities pose a question of whether the political messaging is cynical or genuine religious expression
By Andrew Lapin
A sukkah banner distributed by Hakhel, the Goldberg-Polins' synagogue in Jerusalem, features Hersh's face with the word meaning light. Shlomit Sattler hung the banner in her Jerusalem sukkah. (Courtesy Sattler)
October 16, 2024, 6:33 pm
In new take on tradition, UK group urges families to ‘save seat in sukkah’ for hostages
Board of Deputies of British Jews’ initiative hearkens back to the age-old Jewish practice of inviting symbolic guests to temporary huts built for the Sukkot holiday
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The Gilboa-Dalal sukkah has been left standing for a year, waiting for Guy Gilboa-Dalal, held hostage since October 7, 2023, to come home (Courtesy)
October 16, 2024, 8:51 am
Hostage’s father won’t dismantle last year’s sukkah until his son is home
Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, promised his father he would help put the hut away when he got back from the Nova festival
By Jessica Steinberg
From the October 23 Shared Home Sukkah project, being held again during Sukkot 2024, in order to encourage a sense of shared society in Israel (Courtesy)
October 9, 2024, 1:11 am
Shared Home Sukkah project to be held after organizer killed on Oct. 7
Coexistence effort encourages Israelis of all stripes to meet in sukkah huts around the country to engage in real dialogue over the holiday period
By Jessica Steinberg
Aryeh Deri standing in his sukkah holding an etrog he claimed cost him $5,000, October 1, 2023. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 1, 2023, 9:01 pm
Deri boasts of spending $5,000 on an etrog, then says he was joking
Shas leader brags he paid cash for the Sukkot fruit, which would be an illegally high cash purchase; office says he was defending the honor of small Moroccan etrog in humorous way
By ToI Staff
An aerial view of some of the sukkahs at the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. (Joseph Altshuler/Chicago Sukkah Design Festival via JTA)
September 30, 2023, 6:46 pm
Chicago Sukkot festival reflects on complex history between city’s Blacks and Jews
Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, now in second year, aims to build connections between Lawndale’s African-American community and city’s Jews who used to live there
By Lindsay Eanet
A burnt sukkah in Ashdod, September 28, 2023 (Israel Police)
September 28, 2023, 2:34 pm
Man suspected of setting fire to several sukkahs in Ashdod
Suspect, 30, is arrested after allegedly damaging a number of holiday huts in port city; motive unclear
By ToI Staff
Chef Eyal Shani (left) at Dvora, the kosher restaurant at the entrance to the Brown Debrah hotel that is one of several kosher Brown hotels (Courtesy PR)
September 27, 2023, 12:54 am
Hip Brown hotel chain embarks on holy quest for Tel Aviv’s religious visitors
The group’s boutique offerings have long catered to guests seeking urban cool. Now it’s bringing sukkahs and kosher chow to the secular city in a bid to entice a more devout crowd
By Jessica Steinberg
Yonatan Nizri stands in the sukkah a day after he was wounded in a terror attack there in Beit El, October 15, 2022. (Screenshot/Kan)
October 16, 2022, 9:26 am
‘It was a miracle,’ says Israeli who was only lightly injured in West Bank shooting
Yonatan Nizri was in sukkah with his wife and infant son when bullets from Palestinian terrorists pierced the chair he was sitting on
By ToI Staff
Jerusalem's giant sukkah at Safra Square, hosting events and activities throughout the seven days of Sukkot, October 10-16, 2022 (Courtesy Jerusalem Municipality)
October 9, 2022, 6:38 am
Step out of your booth: The 7 days of Sukkot bring festivals of arts – and coffee
Along with arguably the world’s largest sukkah, Israel puts on activities geared to a wide range of interests
By Jessica Steinberg
Police and Jerusalem city workers take apart a sukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood that was deemed a safety hazzard, September 19, 2021. (Israel Police)
September 19, 2021, 8:29 am
Amid scuffles with police, hazardous sukkah taken down in Jerusalem
Cops assist municipal authorities in taking apart structure balanced high atop scaffolding in ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
September 15, 2021, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 15 – How are the Abraham Accords holding up a year on?
Jacob Magid assesses the future of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, and Jessica Steinberg fills us in on the hottest cultural events coming up in Israel
By ToI Staff
A sukkah perched on an IDF vehicle during the Yom Kippur War (Courtesy Nathan Fendrich/Pritzer Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel)
September 15, 2021, 11:07 am
Rare photos show soldiers’ sukkot during Yom Kippur War
Pictures taken in Sinai and on Golan by US tourist Nathan Fendrich now part of National Library of Israel collection
By Jessica Steinberg
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event at the new Settlement Community Center in the Bronx borough of New York, on March 26, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Pool Photo via AP)
April 13, 2021, 10:13 pm
Cuomo once said of Sukkot: ‘These people and their f**king tree houses’ — NYT
New York governor reportedly expressed frustration with campaign appearance at Jewish holiday event during his run for attorney general in 2006
By Shira Hanau
Rabbi Levi Duchman, in front of a sukkah set up at the KAF kosher restaurant in the Armani Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 5, 2020. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
October 5, 2020, 10:30 pm
Sukkah rises at base of world’s tallest tower in UAE
Hut sprouts outside first kosher restaurant in Gulf on ground level of Burj Khalifa, following US-brokered normalization between Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem
By Isabel Debre
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