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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Sukkot

Shavuot celebrations in Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan in 1945 (Credit Yaakov Rosner/KKL-JNF archive)
June 1, 2025, 1:00 pm
Kibbutz marks 80 years of Shavuot song and dance with pioneering artworks
Northern Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan hosts expansive exhibit inspired by the pre-state work of choreographer Leah Bergstein and composer Mattityahu Shelem for the harvest festival
By Jessica Steinberg
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
Jewish worshipers pray at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, during the priestly blessing of the Sukkot festival, October 20, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 20, 2024, 2:31 pm
Relatives of hostages among thousands gathered at Western Wall for priestly blessing
Ceremony includes special prayers for those held captive in Gaza and for the welfare of Israel’s soldiers
By ToI Staff
Detail from an illustration from 'Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,' by Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band. (Courtesy)
October 18, 2024, 12:14 pm
This Sukkot, a new book gives a daring – and beautiful – reassessment of Ecclesiastes
In ‘Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,’ Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band paint the ancient eponymous text in a more optimistic light
By Rich Tenorio
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
Hillel attendees in Berlin build a sukkah. (Debi Simon for Hillel Deutschland/ via JTA)
October 16, 2024, 2:11 pm
Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot
From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual — with a little bit of extra protection
By Mati Wagner
Yael Aisenthal-Kordevani decorated her sukkah in the city of Modi'in with symbols of the year since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, October 15, 2024. (Courtesy Aisenthal-Kordevani)
October 16, 2024, 12:39 pm
Israelis decorate their first sukkahs since Oct. 7 with hostage photos
Symbols of devastated border communities line walls of sukkahs one year after Hamas onslaught, as soldiers deployed to Gaza erect festive hut, shown in viral image
By Deborah Danan
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
Smoke rises from a fire which broke out from missiles fired from Lebanon at a forest outside the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 24, 2024. (David Cohen/ Flash90)
October 16, 2024, 7:14 am
Head out to nature, or stay near a bomb shelter? The Israeli Sukkot dilemma
As the Jewish state’s ultimate hiking holiday approaches, millions debate whether to get fresh air and risk being caught by enemy rockets – as this writer did
By Aviv Lavie
Nirit Shalev-Khalifa places a flag on a stick next to the items she wants removed, in this case from the situation room of the security team at Kibbutz Kfar Aza close to the Gaza border, on January 2, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
January 7, 2024, 4:55 pm
Under expert eyes, objects retrieved from rubble help document October 7’s horrors
Thousands of items, from deckchairs to a donkey’s skull, are being salvaged, cataloged and stored near the Gaza border by visual history researchers
By Sue Surkes
Michael Sfard (L) and Rabbi Leo Dee at a prayer event on Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, October 5, 2023 (Video screenshot)
October 6, 2023, 10:30 am
As politicians decry ‘attack’ on bereaved rabbi at prayer, both sides deny it occurred
PM says ‘no limit to madness’ after prayer clash at Dizengoff Square; but Rabbi Leo Dee states there was no violence, and man who bumped into him says he was trying to flee scene
By ToI Staff
A member of the Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India works to construct a temporary structure used in celebrating Sukkot. (Courtesy Shavei Israel via JTA)
October 6, 2023, 10:11 am
Displaced by ethnic violence, India’s Bnei Menashe Jews construct sukkahs nonetheless
As conflict in the northeastern state of Manipur enters its sixth month, a Jewish community fleeing decimated homes and burned synagogues is starting to see its exile as permanent
By Jordyn Haime
Participants complete an exercise during a dialogue session at a sukkah as part of the SOS Home project, October 2023. (Courtesy/SOS Home via JTA)
October 5, 2023, 9:07 am
Anti-overhaul protest group invites strangers to debate politics in their sukkahs
Activist organization Safeguarding Our Shared Home looks to engage a cross-section of Israelis during holiday, hoping to help the public ‘learn and understand the issues at play’
By Deborah Danan
A young couple cycles through Central Park on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkot 2023. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)
October 5, 2023, 4:44 am
Sukkot turns New York City into a playground for local Jews
During the holiday’s intermediate days, when most normal activity is permitted but kids are off from school, families venture out in droves – and the city adapts to welcome them
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A member of Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi's delegation holds up a Torah scroll during a morning prayer service in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 3, 2023. (Spokesman's Office, Communications Ministry)
October 5, 2023, 1:31 am
They ‘davened’ in Riyadh: Lessons for Netanyahu from a small, remarkable prayer gathering
A careful yes to Bin Salman for an effort at peace with Saudi Arabia; an urgent no to the likes of Ben Gvir for the accelerating descent into internal division, hatred and bloodshed
By David Horovitz
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