Sukkot

This is the price of 3 nights in Israeli hotels for Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot

We checked the costs of three nights for a family in four popular destinations in Israel: Eilat, the Dead Sea, Tiberias, and Jerusalem.

Orchid Hotel Eilat
We begin our day with the acknowledgment of ‘Modeh Ani.’

Shavuot 2026: The holiday's enduring call to faith, loyalty, and Jewish purpose

 A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020.

Tel Aviv serial killer Mohammed Halabi dies in prison due to medical condition

Rain falls in mid-August in the upper Galilee

From rain to dew: Prayer and the meaning of uncertainty - opinion


Grapevine: Friendship at the feast

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 THE NEW reading room of the National Library of Israel.

We bought the viral Amazon ‘tuchus’ boxes for Sukkot. What does that say about us?

Jews across the US shelled out about $15 for a dozen ready-to-construct cardboard boxes emblazoned with Hebrew letters that spelled a phonetic variation on “tuchus” — the Yiddish word meaning “butt."

 Rabbi Yael Buechler is displaying her Amazon "tuchus" boxes in her Sukkah, October 2024.

Jerusalem tributes Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca for Sukkot

Tribute evening to Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca at the Jerusalem Confederation House’s Ushpizin Poetry & Song Festival.

 Frederico Garcia Lorca at University Theater The Chack in Granada, Andalusia, where he taught, in 1932.

Building a sukkah doesn’t make sense this year in Asheville, North Carolina - opinion

I am not building a sukkah this year because I just spent two weeks cooking and eating every meal outside. It was hard and frustrating.

 A helicopter flies near damaged buildings following the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Bat Cave, North Carolina, U.S., September 30, 2024.

UK group urges families to ‘save seat in sukkah’ for Gaza hostages, in new take on Jewish tradition

As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the fall festival of Sukkot, the leading British Jewish organization is asking them to remember the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

 A man is seen constructing a sukkah for the Sukkot holiday.

Annus horribilis: How can we celebrate and rejoice on Sukkot in 2024?

How can we bring joy into our Sukkot observance this year?

 BALLOONS FLY at a memorial for the victims of the Supernova music festival, on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre.

Jerusalem in its glory: Reconstructing the Sukkot pilgrimage to the Second Temple

What was the pilgrims’ visit to Jerusalem on Sukkot during the Second Temple like?

 ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES Authority workers walk down the Herodian Street dig at the City of David National Park, in 2019. Also named The Pilgrim’s Way, the street lies beneath Wadi Hilweh street in the Palestinian village of Silwan, and leads from the Siloam Pool to the Temple Mount.

Harvesting for Sukkot: A look at the farmers who grow the holiday's Four Species

The farmers who grow the Four Species that symbolize the holiday of Sukkot.

  SHDEYUR AVRAHAMI is seen alongside etrogim for Sukkot.

Another holiday without them: Hostage families prepare for sukkot

"It is painful and incomprehensible that we have erected a 'hostage sukkah,' the purpose of which is to continue the fight to bring our loved ones back from Gaza," residents of the Kibbutz said. 

 A sukkah for the hostages at Kibbutz Be'eri.

Finding solace in the wisdom of King Solomon: Avner Moriah's work on 'Ecclesiastes'

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered his eighth decade, the Book of Ecclesiastes took on new meaning for him. 

  KING SOLOMON, traditionally considered the author of ‘Ecclesiastes.’