This is the Forward’s coverage of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday that coincides with the autumn harvest, during which Jews erect sukkahs.
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Food Pumpkin Bread
This sweet yet hearty pumpkin bread, adapted from a recipe by Chef Brian Alberg, is delicious with breakfast, at teatime, or heated and topped with ice cream for dessert. Makes: 1 loaf 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan. 1 cup all-purpose flour ¾ cup rye flour 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon…
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Food Shawarma Stuffed Peppers With Tahini and Herbs
I’ve made these a couple of different ways: one with rice and one with cauliflower rice. Rice absorbs the juices and binds the filling together nicely while the filling in the cauliflower version stays a bit loose and juicy. Juicy Lucy. I personally prefer the texture of the rice version but the cauliflower version is…
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Food Confetti Vegetable and Goat Cheese Lasagna
Serves: 8 to 10 This large, colorful lasagna shows off the bounty of garden vegetables! Although it is a bit of a project, it is rewarding to make for a large party or potluck or even for a week’s worth of meals. It can also be cut up into sections after baking and cooling, wrapped…
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Community A sukkah kosher for coronavirus
We love exiting our homes and entering our sukkot (the plural of sukkah) because of the opportunity to commune with nature and the Divine. Such an opportunity is one of the reasons we are obligated to dwell in a sukkah during the festival. We are taught that, just as the Israelites were protected by ananei…
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News Alarmed by COVID spike, Orthodox move to make the sukkah safer
A sukkah is something of a paradox. It’s a symbol of safety. In prayer, the word is literally translated as shelter — often, a shelter of God’s peace, spread over the supplicant. Yet its occupants are also not supposed to feel too safe. The roof of a sukkah must be sparse enough to see the…
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News Her Majesty’s Government hands down six coronavirus dos and dont’s— from shofar to sukkah
No dancing, sukkah “crawls” or shared shofars, said Her Majesty’s Government — among other decrees handed down on Monday. British Jews have received an extensive list of don’ts and dos for this year’s High Holiday season, covering Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and the festivals of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. The list was released…
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Culture This Sukkot, This Artist Invited Superheroes To His Sukkah
Every Sukkot, families with sukkahs invite the spirits of the seven biblical matriarchs and patriarchs into their tent. These guests – or ushpizin – cut impressive figures. While we earthly chosen spend our time schmoozing outdoors, kvetching and noshing and pontificating on all manner of mundane things, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel…
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Recipes Use Your Etrog After Sukkot For This Fragrant Eggplant Dish
I was sifting through the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ, the oldest cookbook of the Iberian Peninsula, looking for highlights of Spanish-Jewish culinary heritage in the 13th-century Arabic recipes, when I realized that I had stumbled on a very unique one, prepared with an etrog: “Eggplant dish with saffron.” You might ask, “Why could it be special for…
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