In the Press
Sukkah Soul sukkahs and Judaica have been featured in magazines and newspapers across the country.
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Tablet Magazine
Support System: A Sukkah of Tomorrow Held Up by Its Inhabitants '...and underneath are the everlasting arms...' Deut: 33:27 My hope for the future is that we all become the sukkah and provide support for one another. ... Read More -
The Forward
'SukkahSoul [is] basically selling works of art...SukkahSoul design weaves [the Sefirot] into the architecture; if you look at it, you can almost see the Tree of Life in front of you, cradling the guests of the sukkah within its branches.'... Read More -
Chicago Sunday Tribune
If, as the great Jewish thinker Abraham Joshua Heschel teaches, Shabbat, or the Sabbath, is a cathedral of time, a window of holiness at week's end, then this [Sukkah Soul] museum-quality cast-bronze Shabbat collection — candlesticks, wine cups, spice box, all on a platter -- surely would be the one we'd raise up at its altar.... Read More -
Jewish Woman (2011)
A few years ago, Susan Shender of St. Louis and several of her friends studying in the Melton Adult Jewish Education program were assigned to research Kohelet, also known as the Book of Ecclesiastes. Among the things they discovered is that the book is traditionally read during Sukkot. One of the women had an old sukkah kit stashed in her garage, so they decided to assemble it for the holiday and to gather within its walls to learn Kohelet together.... Read More -
The New York Times
The sukkah Ms. Shender drew up in response, an open lattice of leaning wooden members and diaphanous white fabric, was the only one of the four kits I ordered that could be described as pretty. It was the kind of gauzy shelter where a reality-show bachelor would make his million-dollar proposal.... Read More -
Jewish Ledger
I had no desire to build a sukkah until I became a mother, at which point the desire was born with a vengeance. All of a sudden, a sukkah on Succoth was not just necessary—it was essential. Memories of the sukkot my father had erected in my childhood years returned full force and I was determined that the mitzvah of building and dining in the sukkah would become part of our family tradition.... Read More -
Jewish Woman Magazine
Tamarkin refers to her [Sukkah Soul] sukkah as a temporary oasis. She loves to sit and read in it and have friends over to visit inside its romantic white gauzy walls. Last year she invited her yoga class back to have fruit in her sukkah. "It brings life to our house," she says. "People who never come over come over. There's something magical about it. It's almost like an apparition in the backyard. It's there for a little bit, and then it goes away for a year."... Read More
Support System
A Sukkah of Tomorrow Held Up by Its Inhabitants
(Featured in Tablet Magazine)
Sukkah Soul sukkah with the Bar Mitzvah during Sukkot as featured in The New York Time
"The Love That Shines Through"
by Michael Winerip
The New York Times
October 23, 2008
www.nytimes.com
Susan Shender, Founder of Sukkah Soul
