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Northwestern removes hut honoring Jewish holiday, cites policy; Jewish student group calls action antisemitic
According to Sarah Wachs, a senior, a sukkah (the plural is sukkot) is traditionally an open wooden structure meant to be a short-term dwelling space to honor past generations of Jews who had to ...
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Center for Spiritual Life
Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is named after the huts the Israelites lived in during their exodus from Egypt, which Jews today build to and dwell in to commemorate this time. Sukkot is ...
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75 years ago, my parents and other Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on their own terms
On Sukkot in 1945, my parents and other Holocaust survivors were able to contemplate a future in which happiness might be possible, writes Menachem Z. Rosensaft. Seventy-five years ago ...
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Sukkot: Holiday fun, thrills, spills throughout Israel
The Children of Israel may have had to traipse through the desert for a bit before they got themselves a pit stop in temporary accommodation we know as Sukkot but, these days, we tend to get stuck ...