Sukkot celebrated in Rockland and Bergen

October 30, 2019, 6:00 pm Edit

: Sivan Rahav Meir, a well-known Israeli media personality, spoke to a group of Hillel of Rockland students in the Rockland Community College sukkah on the first night of Chol Hamoed Sukkot. It was co-sponsored by Chabad of Olympia. Rahav Meir and her husband, journalist and radio host Yedidia Meir, are shluchim for the World Mizrachi movement. Rahav Meir, named one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, discussed her work as a journalist, issues in Israeli society, and her journey to becoming shomer Shabbat. (Courtesy Hillel of Rockland)

: Sisterhood members of Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly gathered for Sangrias in The Sukkah; they included shul president Anne-Marie Bennoun; sisterhood president Franci Steinberg; sisterhood vice president of tikkun olam and ritual Annice Benamy; and Rabbi Paula Feldstein, wife of Rabbi Jordan Millstein. The women donated hundreds of bags of supplies of feminine products to Family Promise, Bergen Family Center, and other nonprofits committed to helping women in need in Bergen County. (Photo provided)

: Rabbi Steven Sirbu instructs a young congregant on how to shake the lulav and etrog in Temple Emeth of Teaneck’s sukkah. (Barbara Balkin)

: Although the weather did not cooperate and high winds eventually blew down the Glen Rock Jewish Center’s sukkah, the shul’s men’s club still held its Steak and Scotch in the Sukkah party — indoors. (Courtesy GRJC)

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