Pow! Crash! Bam! ‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ author welcomed to ‘Superhero Sukkot’

October 07, 2022

By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN

Like many boys growing up, Roy Schwartz turned to comic books and cartoons for entertainment and to fantasize about superheroes in both Marvel and DC Comics. But, unlike many American boys, he did...

Person in the Parsha: Succot

October 06, 2022

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“FROM FEAR TO FESTIVITIES”

Fear and trembling.

Those have been our primary religious emotions during the past several weeks.

Although Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are referred to nowadays as the High Holidays,...

Touro Synagogue to kickoff ‘Lifting the Sky’ campaign on Succot

October 06, 2022

Touro Synagogue will combine the celebration of Succot with the kickoff for a new capital campaign – Lifting the Sky – to improve its historic facilities on St. Charles Avenue in the early evening hours of Sunday, Oct. 9. The...

High Holidays signal a return to in-person worship for most area congregants

September 23, 2022

By DEAN SHAPIRO, A CCJN Special Report

As the High Holy Days approach and the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, services at the New Orleans area synagogues will be largely returning to normal for the...

Kohelet

September 24, 2021

By RABBI JOSEPH H. PROUSER

We customarily read the Book of Ecclesiastes (“Kohelet”) in conjunction with Succot: commonly, on the intermediate Sabbath of the Festival or on Shemini Atzeret… though there is no mention of this practice in the Talmud.

Thousands gather at Western Wall for Succot Priestly Blessing

September 23, 2021

 (JNS.org) – Thousands gathered at the Western Wall on Wednesday morning for the traditional Succot Priestly Blessing.

Present for the ceremony were Israel’s Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, as well as Rabbi of the...

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ succah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

September 22, 2021

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

(JTA) — Before the Spanish Inquisition, the island of Mallorca had a sizeable Jewish community. Every fall, the island became dotted with the leaf-roofed huts that Jews are commanded to erect during the holiday of Succot.

But...

Sukkot

September 17, 2021

Person in the Parsha: Succot

September 16, 2021

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“FROM FEAR TO FESTIVITIES“ 

Fear and trembling.

Those have been our primary religious emotions during the past several weeks.

Although Rosh Hashanah and Yom...

Off the Pulpit: Both Passing and Permanent

September 16, 2021

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE

I don’t know if the story is true, but I hope it is. Goldberg built a succah. Next door lived a nasty man who didn’t like Jews and decided to get an injunction against unstable structures...