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Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu dances with IDF Reserve soldiers on Sukkot up north.
Simcha, Sason & Chedva, and the distinctions between them.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision came after anarchist protesters forcefully prevented Rosh Yehudi, an outreach group, from holding a public Yom Kippur service.
By COLlive.com
During the visit, Chikli toured the etrog orchard of the Gorlik family, discovering the secrets of growing the unique fruit for Sukkot.
By JNi.Media
Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Chanie Fogelman, the co-director of Central Mass Chabad, in Worcester, Massachusetts, gives an in-depth explanation of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Wednesday night’s entrance took place on the occasion of the Sukkot holiday and to mark the Ushpizin day of Yosef HaTzadik.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The “Pouring of the Water” was an important feature of the festival of Sukkot during the times of the Temple.
Reb Yisrael and his sons erected their sukkah adjacent to the kitchen door of their palatial home in one of the Five Towns, as they had done for many years in the past...
By COLlive.com
"Lulavs are for personal use only and must accompany the traveler at the time of entry into Canada. Commercial imports are not permitted,” the government website states.
Guests from all over are clamoring to make their bookings at the Ramada and Royal hotels
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Many forget that the holiday, which begins a few days after Yom Kippur, also fell during the height of the fighting.
There are no more luxurious accommodations in Jerusalem than at the David Citadel Hotel.
Non-Jews from around the world march in Jerusalem on the Sukkot holiday to show their love and support for the people of Israel.
By JNi.Media
The sukkah was erected by a group of foreign office employees from various departments and diverse backgrounds, which is dedicated to promoting religion and faith.
Why do people in the nations want to observe Sukkot?
Security and tours of the ancient cemetery and the modern Jewish community in Jerusalem's Old City area.
On Sukkot, Christian pilgrims from all over the world come to support Israel.
Expert advice on how to protect yourself in an attack, whether criminal or terror based.
By JNi.Media
'The President's Residence is the home of all the citizens of the State of Israel, each of you here are guests and also hosts.'
By JNi.Media
The Oz veGaon preserve was established in memory of Gilad Shaer, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Fraenkel, three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped on 12 June 12, 2014, outside the Jewish settlement of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion.
By JNi.Media
“This was meant to be a place where everyone was welcome, and someone just ripped it down.”
Smotrich spoke about his recently launched peace plan, and Friedman listened carefully to what he had to say.
Sukkot has played a key role in the reconstruction of the Jewish Homeland and the ingathering of Jews – and their transition - to the Land of Israel.
The upcoming Sukkot holiday and more!
Observing the holiday of Sukkot
Get ready for a mass gathering and ascension to the Temple Mount this Sukkot with Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel on Israel Inspired.
The Las Vegas attack & the promise of Sukkot.
By JNi.Media
If anyone asks, this is why Israel closes off the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority for the duration of Jewish holidays: to commemorate the Park Hotel massacre.
Shows you may have missed, but don't have to.
By JNi.Media
"In the framework of the rules of the Temple Mount, in accordance with the status quo in the area, ritual activity with overt external features, including the four species, is forbidden."
By JNi.Media
It turns out that the notion that the re-building of the Holy Temple is the sole responsibility of the Jewish people is the bedrock on which the Temple Institute was established.
By JNi.Media
Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
The best and most interesting news regarding Israel!
By JNi.Media
The celebration attracted more than a hundred guests, and was an opportunity for Arab dignitaries from nearby Bethlehem and Hebron to mingle with senior IDF and Israel Police officials
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Sukkot is the most universalistic of all festivals. At the same time, however, it is the most particularist of festivals. When we sit in the sukkah, we recall Jewish history
How to praise G-d on Sukkot.
Sukkot from the Ein Prat Academy.
By Paula Stern
Israel has become the greatest of Sukkahs for the Jewish people - it is truly here that we are safe in a way we do not feel anywhere else in the world.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“On Sukkot, we will go up to Jerusalem; say yes to the Western Wall, no to UNESCO’s decision!” wrote Deri.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A group of female graphic designers from across Israel have spearheaded a project to commemorate Na’ama Henkin.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The Sukkah represents our life span on earth. For what is a Sukkah but a frail structure which we need to dwell in for 7 days and these 7 days represent man’s average life span of about seventy years
By Jeff Dunetz
Sukkot has a lot of great meanings, perhaps the best one for today’s world is the fact that it is the Holiday when we pray for the rest of the world. And whatever your religion or political affiliation, I am sure that you will agree that the world needs it!
Sukkot has played a key role in the reconstruction of the Jewish Homeland and the ingathering of Jews – and their transition - to the Land of Israel.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The heart of Sukkot is to know that life is full of risk and yet to affirm it, to sense the full insecurity of the human situation and yet to rejoice in it. Chag Sameach!
People gather S'chach סכך to build the roof of their Sukkah, ahead of the Sukkot holiday.
Many of our greatest artists have produced striking graphic works on these subjects; what follows is a selection of original artwork from my Sukkot collection.
By JNi.Media
Speaking on the eve of Sukkot, President Rivlin said, "The festivals of Israel all highlight the inextricable bond between our people and our land, and no forum or body in the world can come and deny the connection between the Jewish people, the Land of Israel and Jerusalem."
Send a Lulav and Etrog to an IDF soldier with a click.
By JNi.Media
The pigs usually come late at night, but last Sukkot they prowled among the booths.
The first rains of the winter season are expected on Tuesday, one day after Jews around the world begin adding to daily prayers that God "brings the wind and rain." The change is made during the prayers on Shemini Azereth, the same day that Simchat Torah is celebrated in Israel. In the Diaspora, the two […]
Today, the Jewish people had the opportunity to perform a relatively rare commandment called Hahkel. Devarim 31:10-13 10: And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11: when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy […]
The Givat Oz V'Gaon was among the sites overwhelmed with Sukkot holiday tourists from around the country.
The gang's members, 12-14-years old, photographed the victim after the attack.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
Muslim extremists camped out overnight in their holy Al Aqsa mosque to attack Jews, who were barred from the Temple Mount. Instead, they clashed with police.
By Kosher Today
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By Shalom Bear
Following escalating and extreme violence by Muslims on the Temple Mount, police have restricted Muslims access to the Jewish holy site.
Jeremy Gimpel sent us this amazing Sukkot related video linking the ancient with the modern...
By JTA
A “wandering Sukkah” catches up with wandering Jews.
Aides to US President Barack Obama expressed displeasure today over not being informed of plans to assemble tens of thousands of makeshift residential structures over the last week in Jewish communities in areas both Israel and the Palestinians claim.
By Joseph Cox
The encounter with the timeless stability of the divine occurs within the Sukkot.
By JTA
The “perfect” etrog actually has one big non-Halachic blemish – it is not grown in Israel.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Sukkot's duality is that it's the most universalistic and the most particularistic of all festivals
Sukkot is a universal holiday, inviting all peoples to come on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Not everyone wants to wait until after Yom Kippur to start building their Sukkah. This Sukkah is being built in Kfar Etzion. Chag Sameach.
For those of us in Israel, it's Isru Chag (the day after the holidays, when we pack up our Succahs, and finally get to relax after such a busy holiday). For those still stuck in Galus (the Diapora), it's still Yom Tov (holiday) so you shouldn't be reading this anyway. So - unless, there's major […]
Jerusalem police once again have prohibited Jews from visiting the Temple Mount because of security officials' unintended admission that they cannot or do not want to deal with violent Arabs. Officially, police say that they blocked the planned visit of hundreds of Jews to the holy site on Tuesday, the sixth day of the Sukkot […]
More than 60 people took part in a special one day Kilometers for Koby Sukkot hike along the Israel Trail and the Burma Road this week to help raise funds for Camp Koby, established in memory of terror teenage victim Koby Mandell. He and a friend were killed nearly 13 years ago in a terrorist […]
By Shalom Bear
On Sunday morning, the traditional Birkat Cohanim, Blessing of the Priests, was held in the Kotel courtyard. The Kotel was packed.
Does your Sukkah stand up to the challenge as the “best in the world.” The Jewish Agency will be the judge in its “Sukkathon 2013” competition.
If the Women of the Wall want equality with men, why don’t they try to perform the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall? Do tribal distinctions contradict “equality?” If so, who needs a Reform "rabbi?"
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah discuss surviving Yom Kippur in Jerusalem and also making preparations for Sukkot.
Israeli tax official surprised Lulav and Etrog street vendors around the country on Monday.
Netanyahu demands that that Mahmoud Abbas recognize Israel as a Jewish state, but if it wants foreign journalists to do so, perhaps it should not call Rosh HaShanah-Yom Kippur-Sukkot “autumn holidays.”
By JTA
He smuggled goods to Syria in the midst of its civil war and to Iran in the face of international sanctions, but Rabbi A.H. is no arms dealer or James Bond. He’s just a guy selling lulavs.
Question: I seem to see a lack of uniformity regarding the mitzvah of sukkah on Shemini Atzeret. What is the proper procedure to follow? Menachem Via e-mail
Tens of thousands of Christians from 60 countries around the world are participating in Thursday’s “Feast of the Tabernacles” march around Jerusalem.
Mordechai Ben David, Chaim Yisrael, Udi Davidi and Shlomo Katz performed to a packed audience on Wednesday in the Jewish biblical city of Hebron, burial ground of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah, and Jewish ancestors and notables Jesse, Ruth, and Avner.
The U.S. covenant with the Jewish State dates back to Columbus Day, which is celebrated around Sukkot (October 8). According to "Columbus Then and Now" (Miles Davidson, 1997, p. 268), Columbus arrived in America on Friday afternoon, October 12, 1492, the 21st day of the Jewish month of Tishrey, the Jewish year 5235, the 7th day of Sukkot, Hoshaa'na' Rabbah, which is a day of universal deliverance and miracles. Hosha (הושע) is the Hebrew word for “deliverance” and Na’ (נא) is the Hebrew word for "please." The numerical value of Na’ is 51, which corresponds to the celebration of Hoshaa'na' Rabbah on the 51st day following Moses' ascension to Mt. Sinai.
By Tzvi Fishman
There is a special mitzvah on Sukkot to be “ach samaoch.” Only joyous. It is a happiness not dependent on anything external, beyond definition and words. Just to be absolutely joyous in one’s love and worship of G-d. Rabbi Kook describes the sukkah as a whirlpool of joyous energy which is constantly changing each second, reaching ever-higher levels of joy and attachment to G-d.
This Sukkot, the residents of the city of Kfar Saba are not only communing with nature by sitting in the biblically-assigned booths present throughout the rest of Israel, but by doing so in a green-friendly way.
The Toldot Aharon hasidic group says it will not enforce gender segregation in the streets of the Jerusalem religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim over the Sukkot holiday.
By Tzvi Fishman
L eading up to the holiday of Sukkot, we’ll wrap up our condensed look at Rabbi Kook’s teachings on t’shuva with a few blogs on two of the holidays most important themes – Eretz Yisrael and Torah.
Question: The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch states that an individual praying selichot without a minyan is not allowed to recite the Thirteen Midot or the Aramaic prayers. What is the rationale behind this halacha? Moshe Jakobowitz Brooklyn, NY
June 19, 2026 
