- May 14, 2025
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Nathan Geffre joins in the parade.
Jacob Shefrin waves his flag high.
Robby Wagner rests for a moment.
Michael and Blake Hudson
Samaya and Brian Laeger sing along as cats.
Rabbi Michael Shefrin sings in a robot voice.
Jacob Bunin sits on his mother Rebecca's lap.
The Sukkot had a number of gifts attached.
Rabbi Brenner Glickman leads the group in prayer.
Novalee Golen
The Sukkot had a number of gifts attached.
Paige Hudson marches with her flag.
Families left with a gift bag
After a drive-in celebration last year, Temple Emanu-El families returned to traditional festivities with a lively Sukkot celebration on Sept. 25.
Rabbi Michael Shefrin led off the Jewish harvest festival celebration with a group prayer and sing-along. The event had its own sukkah — a callback to the outdoor huts the Israelites stayed in— where children and family made crafts and attached them to the structure.
Shefrin said the celebration was a reminder of the fragility of life and the importance of cherishing it.
He then had the assembled families join in a recognizing of the Simchat Torah holiday marking the completion of reading the Torah.
The event ended with a parade around the front of the Temple.
