Sukkot

Hut Two, Three, Four ...

Ben Richman (left) used etrog trees in the family sukkah, with help from daughters Eden and Hadassah.

Food

Sukkot: The Jewish Thanksgiving

By:

Ethel Hofman

THE JEWISH KITCHEN Sukkot could be described as the Jewish Thanksgiving. Like the all-American holiday, this fall festival is a celebration of a bountiful harvest. You can buy sukkah-building kits for the backyard or balcony or, as we do, set up your own with 2x4's and trellises that may be stored and used each year. Today, sukkahs are comfortable, with...

Food

Remembering the Holiday With Wine and Blessings

By:

Rivka Tal

Webster's New World College Dictionary defines the word kiddush as a "prayer recited over wine or bread on the eve of or on the day of the Sabbath or of a festival so as to set the day apart as holy." The Torah refers to two requirements concerning Shabbat and festivals -- to "keep it" and to "remember it" (...

Sukkot

Flowering of a Tradition

Sukkot's suddenly so popular, due to environmental issues and new ease of celebrating

By:

Bryan Schwartzman

In many ways, the sukkah booth that Leslie Sudock puts up every year in a "postage stamp-sized" backyard in Center City has become both an extension of her work as an artist and an expression of her own interpretation of Jewish tradition. Sudock, a 50-something lawyer, musicologist, singer and artisan -- who lives with husband Dan Drecksage near Fitler Square...

Food

Sukkot: Just the Right Time for the Comfort Foods of the Past

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Linda Morel, JE Feature

Though I don't like to admit it, lately I've been eating the foods of my youth: chicken fricassee and stuffed peppers, sweet-and-sour meatballs, braised short ribs. I liked them as a child, but that was before I was exposed to moussaka, polenta and Pad Thai noodles. By the 1970s, I became so enamored with other people's cuisine that I rejected...