Eric Berger, Associate Editor
Published September 26, 2021
The end of the Jewish harvest festival, Sukkot, is near. The annual holiday, when Jews build temporary huts known as sukkahs and eat, celebrate and in some cases, sleep under them, ends tomorrow night, Sept. 27.
Many Jews throughout St. Louis built the huts this year, which we have been documenting with photo galleries.
Check out our gallery below:
Scott Berzon, director of business operations at Congregation Shaare Emeth, constructed a sukkah at his home in Ballwin for the first time this year. The project started when his wife, Jamie, spotted a large pile of bamboo in a neighbor's yard with a sign: "Free." "Jamie convinced us it was time to try and build our first Sukkah. The process was just as rewarding as the end result, and we laughed along the way that our structure may very well be a symbol of impermanence," Scott Berzon explained.