Sukkot

“It is customary to hurry home from shul after neilah and immediately drive the first nail for one's sukkah into the ground....Jews all over the United States...we will drive that first nail together by calling on our government to take an essential first step of teshuvah in the direction of abolishing torture.” (Prayer by Rabbi Margaret Holub)

Sukkot

• A Sukkot Prayer for the Bedouin: By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat for Sukkot 2012/5773.
  


• Sukkot without a Guilty Conscience: A D'var Torah by Rabbi Jill Jacaobs for Sukkot 2011/5772 about slavery in America's tomato fields.

• Sukkot and Our Bedouin Problem: Movable Booths, Dreams of Going Home: In this d’var torah from 2010/5771, Rabbi Joey Wolf connects the holiday of Sukkot and the situation of Israeli Bedouins in the village of Al-Arakib in the Negev region. Israeli security forces have destroyed Al-Arakib time and time again, leveling their temporary structures each time they have tried to rebuild their modern-day sukkot in the desert.

 

 

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