It’s easy to confuse faith with innocence when blind trust invites potential betrayal. To the unfaithful, true believers can appear impossibly naive. Fully aware that the faithful are vulnerable in a ...

Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Congregation Bnai Jeshurun:—Succoth, the Harvest Festival in the Jewish calendar, leads the thought of the Jew back to the agricultural civilization which formed the setting ...

You have to feel sorry for the poor aravah, the willow branch waved together with the other three species of the arba’ahminim on Succoth. It lacks the fragrance of the etrog and the myrtle, and, ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

On the eve of the Hebrew holy time called Succoth, as thousands of Jews prayed at the sacred site known as the Western Wall, a double desecration took place. A crowd of 3,000 Arabs, many carrying ...

Jews use Christian blood for building their Succoth for their Feast of Tabernacles, was the new cry raised in the village of Plivk, in the district of Siedlice, following the disappearance there of a ...