Celebrating the High Holidays across Baltimore
It’s been another unusual year, but the pandemic didn’t stop the Baltimore Jewish community from celebrating the High Holidays. Whether by baking challah for...
Four deeper meanings of the lulav and etrog
Like Abraham and Sarah, a bagel and schmear, or apples and pie, the lulav and etrog are a perfect pair. The lulav and etrog...
Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl releases Sukkot guide
Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl, an unaffiliated congregation of 130 households, usually celebrates Sukkot with a communal sukkah, but that won’t be possible this...
How Baltimoreans are making sukkahs this year
The construction of a happy holiday
Though Sukkot looks a little different this year, it hasn’t stopped the community from building sukkahs.
At Beth El Congregation...
Rosh Hashanah dinner, Yom Kippur break-fast, sukkah hops: How risky are these High Holiday...
When Passover arrived just a few weeks after the pandemic set in earlier this year, it was clear that seders with families and friends...
Festival Harvests the Joy of Sukkot
Imagine an energetic band blasting tunes, beautiful neon colors swirling in a tent and an awkwardly large bird dancing in crisp air. Behold: an...
Why Sukkot is Like the Love that Glows
On the Shabbat during Sukkot we read of Moshe’s second trip up Mount Sinai. When he returns, something startling happens: Moshe’s face radiates. As...
A Home Away From Home Away From Home: Colleges Prepare for Sukkot
Sukkot, in Rabbi Mendy Rivkin’s experience, is his students’ favorite holiday. Rivkin, who co-directs the Towson/Goucher Chabad with his wife, Sheiny, finds that the...
No Room for a Sukkah? Take Your Pick at Sukkah City
Sept. 27 will be a night of celebration, Sukkot gathering and community joy at the first Sukkah City at the Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC,...
Whither the Sukkah When You Live in an Apartment?
Sure, you may have an expansive patio, deck or lawn outside your back door. But what if you don’t have a back door? What...
