If you’re stocking your bar for a festive Sukkot celebration, which begins October 9 here’s a tip: Get a bottle of Righteous Seven liqueur. The award-winning spirit is inspired by the Old Testament and manufactured right here in the St. Louis area. Righteous...

It’s old news by now, but wow, the High Holidays are early this year. With erev Rosh Hashanah colliding with Labor Day and Simchat Torah wrapping up before the month of September ends, I feel like I’ve been flung into fall even though most days...

The mood swing from Yom Kippur to Sukkot is among the most dramatic of Jewish transitions. From sobriety to celebration, from awe-struck fear to total joy, from fasting to feasting, we re-engage with the world beyond the walls of synagogue, remembering...

Sophomore Jonathan Mack is perhaps among only a handful of undergraduates at Washington University who brought a full set of power tools to college — reciprocating saw and all.So it made perfect sense, at least to Chabad on Campus Rabbi Hershey Novack,...

The intermediate Shabbat of Sukkot has provided our sages with opportunities to help us take stock of ourselves and to be aware of our surroundings as we celebrate the fall harvest. Liturgically, our sages inserted some important attitudes provided to...

Everything’s gonna be alright If pictures were used to explain the meaning of certain words, no doubt Randy Fleisher’s headshot would be found alongside “mensch.” The Central Reform Congregation rabbi personifies the definition of all-around...

Greek Jews are no strangers to moussaka, the rich casserole traditionally made from eggplant and lamb and thickly layered with bechamel. But because kosher laws prohibit the consumption of milk and meat together, Jewish versions of the dish tend to...

The central mitzvah of Sukkot is found in Leviticus 23:42, where Jews are commanded to dwell in a sukkah , a temporary hut, for seven days and nights. We do this in order to remember the experiences of our ancestors, both on the journey from Egypt to...

Here’s the short version of this article. If you leave your kids home on the High Holidays so you can have grownup praying time, bring your kids on Sukkot.If you bring your kids to the High Holidays, then bring them back on Sukkot.Sukkot is the best...

Ingredients:1 cup golden raisins, soaked in 2 cups very hot water for 20 minutes 1 tbsp. active dry yeast ½ cup (and a pinch) granulated sugar 6 cups (approximately) all-purpose flour or bread flour  Finely grated zest of 1 medium orange 3 large...