Jeremy Rosen: The ancient festival of Sukot has three elements to it. There is the Sukah itself, the Arba’ah Minim, the Four Plants, Geshem, the prayers for rain and Simchah, the command to celebrate and be happy, and added later, the rejoicing over the Torah.
President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin have hosted their traditional Open Sukkah event, inviting the Israeli public to celebrate the holiday at the President's Residence in Jerusalem.
Matthew Guy MP, Leader of the Victorian State Opposition tells the audience at Beth Weizmann Community Centre about his recent trip to Israel, as a guest of Zionism Victoria.
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin has commented on the expected UNESCO vote questioning the historic connection of the Jewish people to the Western Wall.
On Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) hundreds of thousands of Israelis are celebrating this Biblical Festival in an illegitimate manner. That’s not my description but rather that of the European Union and the rest of the UN whose warped definition of Judea, Samaria, the Golan and half of Jerusalem as illegally “occupied” seems to have become something almost divinely ordained.
