Sukkot

Myrtle, Date Palm, Willow, Citron Arthur Schaffer, Tradition. What do the "four species" of Sukkot signify? A botanist finds an agricultural interpretation that would have been readily available to an ancient Israelite farmer. (PDF, 1982)

Be Joyful Yehudah Mirsky, Jewish Ideas Daily. "And you will rejoice," the Bible commands with regard to Sukkot. But can even God summon up joy on demand?

Reinventing the Sukkah John Bentley Mays, Globe and Mail. Aiming to raise awareness about affordable housing, a Canadian housing agency is preparing to reveal the winners of its international—and multi-faith—sukkah design contest.

Uniting Past and Future Raymond Apple, Arutz Sheva. Sukkot doesn’t just remind us of the huts that our ancestors built in the wilderness, but it also presages the future, “when all mankind will sit in unity in God’s universal sukkah.”