Come Together - Local Jewish Organizations Celebrate Sukkot with a Sukkah Open House; Sunday, September 22 & Monday, September 23, 2013

Come together as a community and celebrate Sukkot (the
Festival of Booths) with a Sukkah Open House, on Sunday, September 22 from 1:00
p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Monday, September 23, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The
Sukkah Open House is free and open to the community.

Sukkot is celebrated 15 days after Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish
New Year), and involves setting up a temporary sukkah (booth) which is symbolic
of the homes in which the Israelites lived during their forty years of
wandering the desert. Throughout the holiday, events, meals, and family
gatherings take place in the sukkah.

The Sukkah Open House will include refreshments and
activities at five sukkahs set up at the following West Hartford locations: the
Harry
and Jeanette Weinberg Community Services Building, Zachs Campus,
333 Bloomfield Avenue, which is comprised of the
Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Jewish
Family Services, and the Jewish Historical Society; the Mandell JCC, Zachs
Campus, 335 Bloomfield Avenue; Hebrew Health Care, 1 Abrahms Boulevard; Hebrew
High School of New England,  Pava Campus,
300 Bloomfield Avenue; and Hoffman SummerWood Community, 160 Simsbury Road.

For more information, contact David Jacobs, Mandell JCC
Executive Director, 860-231-6313, djacobs@mandelljcc.org,
or call the Mandell JCC Member Services Center, 860-236-4571.