Sukkah Building & Exhibit

The holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is an ancient festival that commemorates how the Israelites wandered for forty years in the wilderness before entering the Land of Canaan. For seven days, Jews eat and celebrate in huts called sukkot. They offer prayers of thanks, while shaking a lulav and etrog: a palm frond bound with myrtle and willow, and a citron (lemon). Learn more about the holiday, help build and decorate the sukkah, and examine a kosher lalav and etrog. You can also sign up for the Jewish Student Organization! Please RSVP to Dr. Jacob Labendz, Director of Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies: jlabendz@ysu.edu