Monday, September 16, 2013

Sukkot and the Single Woman: A Holiday of Thankfulness and Self-Invention

I never felt comfortable in my Orthodox neighborhood on Sukkot until I made a sukkah of my own—from the most unlikely materials
Sukkot was coming. Or, as the Municipal Parking Bureau of New York City calls it, the Festival of the Booths.
I was 30, single, working as a secretary, and living in Brooklyn just a scant block