A Judaism Large As Life: 350 Years of Jews in North America
A Judaism Large As Life: 350 Years of Jews in North America
As we prepare to celebrate Judaism’s most joyous Festival, Hag Ha-Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, we recall and re-enact our ancestor’s wanderings in the wilderness, and their sense of dwelling within God’s protective love – symbolized by the booths we continue to construct at this season. Such an occasion is a fitting time to consider another wandering of historic proportion, the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America, itself noteworthy and a cause for reflection.