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Tens of thousands of people on Thursday night visited the Western Wall plaza in honor of the holiday of Hoshana Rabba. The swell of visitors reached a peak early on Friday morning, when the morning ...

Hoshana Rabbah is, according to tradition, the day the judgment of Yom Kippur is sealed and finalized. There are some changes in the morning prayers. We circle the bima seven times with our lulav and ...

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A group at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square participates in a Hoshana Rabba service, the morning prayer held on the last day of the Sukkot festival. The special service involves worshippers holding the ...

But today we are not fearful. The very opposite! These are the days of our joy, the season of rejoicing. These are days when we sense the bounty of Your world, the richness of harvest, the wealth of ...

Hoshana Rabbah is the next occasion celebrated by Jewish people around the world, falling as people finish observing Sukkot. The occasion is a semi-holiday and comes as the fifth observance of October ...

One of the culinary traditions for Sukkot, particularly the last days of the week-long holiday, is to eat stuffed cabbage, known in Yiddish by many names, including holishkes, holiptses, prakes and ...

Today people of the Jewish faith will celebrate Hoshana Rabbah with a special synagogue service. Hoshana Rabba is marked as the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (a Jewish festival held in ...