succah

Jerome after the summer, and, based on the timing of the meeting (which fell two days after the holy day of Yom Kippur and a day and a half before Sukkot), were likely consumed with holiday preparation, such as building their sukkahs (Heinrich).

Sukkahs built from a kit take about around an hour to construct.

"Being Jewish in Southern small towns takes a lot of effort," was the notion behind the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, a bow to cotton-covered sukkahs, bagels with grits, and drawled Yiddish.

Sukkot is a harvest festival originating during the time when the Israelites lived in the wilderness in temporary dwellings called sukkahs. The symbolism is one of home although unsettled, exposed and vulnerable to the elements.

Dar makes superb use of the location shooting, giving the courtyard where the sukkahs are erected the feeling of an old-time Hollywood stage set which in turn fills in for an entire world.

I attended Seders, ate in sukkahs, and acquired the secret language of heksher symbols.

People decorate their sukkahs with branches and fruits as a way of giving thanks for the season's bounty.

Now that shofar blasts are no longer reverberating in the air and sukkahs no longer sit on the balconies of the Holy Land, the long-awaited period of aharei hahagim (literally, "after the holidays"), when the nation's month-long excuse for getting nothing doneother than shopping for chicken and pomegranates, of coursefinally reaches its expiration date.

For a temporary structure, the sukkah has been around a long time.

The links between these and many other families living in the Harding were expressed each fall in the Harding's communal sukkah. Each year, prior to the Jewish holiday of Sukka (Tabernacles), Richard, the black superintendent, constructed a sukkah in the interior courtyard formed between the two wings of the building.