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Jewish tradition recognizes Sukkot as a celebration and sharing of our material possessions.

Called hol hamoed, the intermediate days are observed differently than the beginning and final ones.

Is the Jewish people disappearing?

How to celebrate the last Jewish holidays of fall.

Highlights of the Sukkot Prayer Service

Jewish lifecycle ceremonies celebrate change, and sanctify the ordinary.

Traditionalist Jews have many objections to new, or renewed, lifecycle ceremonies.

For Jewish religious thinkers in our time, the question "why observe mitzvot?" has become a central and critical concern. Some answers echo earlier periods, some are new.

What holiness meant to the sages of the Talmud.

Overview of various themes in Jewish lifecycle.