.... and have a wonderful Yom Tov! (it looks like our granddaughter Kayla was getting an early start while we were setting the table...)

Avid readers of my blog may be familiar with my "Chossid On Chol Hamoed" photos. This is my favorite (taken back in 2008 - notice ...

This aerial view of a local backyard conjures up images of shantytowns of old... There are actually MORE succahs in this backyard than the c...

Here is Mara's and her husband Frankie's sukkah, in Kansas City, which was decorated by their three kids! Mara writes a frugal Jewis...

Look at the lovely fall foliage decorating Leora's succah! Thanks Leora, for generously allowing me to share your photo with my readers...

Thanks again to Yekke Wannabe for sending this video in. (For some undetermined reason, it's not showing up in everybody's Google Re...

Don't you HATE when that happens to you? All the good spots are taken up by succahs !!! Submitted By: Yekke Wannabe

In the rush to come up with fresh and innovative menu plans for six meals this past Yom Tov, I tried several new recipes that I culled fro...

We spent some time yesterday in Yonkers at the Simchas Beis Hashoeva of the Lincoln Park Jewish Center. Little did we know that it would do...

Due to an incredible dearth of (non Yom Tov, non Erev Yom Kippur) Fridays lately, coupled with overwhelming reader request both on and off b...

Welcome one and all to the Beit Shean Valley installment of the Succah Hop. On this leg of our journey, we will be visiting sunny Israel, wh...

(.... alternately entitled, "Hey, this gravy wasn't this watery when we brought it down to the succah....") How does one wrap...

(UPDATED WITH VIDEO BELOW) Welcome one and all to the first installment of the Succah Hop. Our first stop is Monsey, NY. My friend Stuie has...

This photo was taken in Mannheim, Germany, some time in the mid-1930s. My father is the cute little boy in the middle, sitting next to his b...

... Joey's birthday! How old is he? 22!!!!! I still remember that Yom Kippur that I paced the halls of Presbyterian Hospital with Avram....