JTS Celebrates Sukkot 5770

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

From all of us at JTS, we wish you a joyous Sukkot, filled with the same promise that the rains bring to the fields.

• See a time-lapse slideshow of the building of the sukkot in the JTS courtyard
• Read commentaries on Sukkot by JTS faculty and scholars
• View Sukkot images from The Library
• 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

Sukkah Slideshow

Sukkot Commentaries

• 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 Jewish Theological Seminary Facilities staff is in the midst of its own long-held tradition: hauling, constructing, and assembling the two eight-hundred-square-foot booths (sukkot) that dominate the courtyard while, across JTS, 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 . . .

Continue reading "Building the Sukkah"

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