The Jewish Exponent

This Sukkot, Sarah Sassoon Will Celebrate in an Iraqi Sukkah, with Czech Candlesticks

For most Jews, a sukkah conjures a booth with canvas or wooden walls, and bamboo or some sort of foliage on top as schach. Growing up in Sydney, Sarah Sassoon, 42, had a very different experience. The ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes

The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get ...
Sun Sentinel

'Things,' saved from fire, that have made LA houses into Jewish homes | COMMENTARY

The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get ...
The Forward

The LA fires destroyed countless Jewish heirlooms. A national Judaica drive aims to create new ones.

LOS ANGELES – You can hardly see the surface of the Conroy family’s dining room table these days. A mountain of yarmulkes rises along one edge, next to a column of challah boards. Beyond them, a ...