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Where To Get Your Sukkah On This Year

Where To Get Your Sukkah On This Year

If you managed to survive the great Lulav Shortage of 2011 and are ready to shake those etrogs for the Jewish holiday Sukkot, which began this week, here's where to do it: more ›

Sukkot Shortage! Palm Fronds Grow Scarce

Sukkot Shortage! Palm Fronds Grow Scarce

When Sukkot rolls around on the night of October 12, consider yourself lucky if you get the opportunity to shake both an etrog, and a lulav because apparently those lulavs are getting hard to find. more ›

The Bryant Park Sukkah Is Legally Kosher

The Bryant Park Sukkah Is Legally Kosher

Stop by Bryant Park this week and you'll notice a nice, classy Sukkah, or ceremonial hut, where Jews celebrate the eight-day harvest holiday of Sukkot. The Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan pays $10,000 to set up the structure, but it's open to people of all faiths to eat, sit, pray, or just hang out. That's tempting, but isn't the structure taking away precious park space for religious purposes, and violating the constitutional separation of Church and State? Where are the tea-baggers, y'all? more ›

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