On the weekend between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, Waterville city workers put up the frame for our community sukkah. They were careful to make sure that tree branches did not obscure the view of the stars and the night sky, and that sufficient room was left for a Wabanaki storytelling festival in the town square […]
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These are the parts of the Lulav and Etrogwe have held in our hands since we firstwandered the desert – LulavHow impressive you are, our spine, straight and bold.Pain, heat, softness, even tickling – every one of ourphysical feelings travels your distance. HadasYou are our eyes through which we see allthat there is to see. […]
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Last week the Brooklyn rabbi Andrue Kahn received a request from a group of Jewish students at New York University: Would he come to lead prayers at their sukkah? It wasn’t an unusual request for a rabbi during the holiday of Sukkot, but the circumstances behind it were decidedly more so. The student group was […]
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