JTS Celebrates Sukkot 5771

Sukkot is a time when we gather with family and friends to celebrate the bountiful harvest and recall our forty years in the desert.

All of us at The Jewish Theological Seminary wish you and yours a joyous Sukkot, filled with the same promise that the rains bring to the fields.

• Enjoy a video of Dr. Vivian Mann discussing the recent Sukkah City competition
• See a time-lapse slideshow of the building of the sukkot in the JTS courtyard
• Read parashah commentaries on Sukkot by JTS faculty and scholars
• View Sukkot images from The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
• Read a story on JTS sukkah construction

You will dwell in booths for seven days; all natives of Israel shall dwell in booths.
—Leviticus 23:42

Dr. Vivian Mann, director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at JTS, discusses the Sukkah City competition

Sukkah Slideshow

Sukkot Parashah Commentaries

• 5771: Written by Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies and Provost of JTS
• 5769 and 5770: Written by Rabbi Marc Wolf, Vice Chancellor and Chief Development Officer, JTS
• 5768: Written by Rabbi David Hoffman, Scholar-in-Residence, Development Department, JTS

Sukkot Images from The Library

See additional holiday images from The Library.

A JTS Sukkah Story

In the weeks before we celebrate the holiday, the JTS Facilities Department staff engages in its own long-held tradition: hauling, constructing, and assembling the two eight-hundred-square-foot booths (sukkot) that dominate the courtyard, while, across the JTS campus, everyone from Student Life, the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, Dining Services, and other departments ready their teams to help make it a successful celebration . . .

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