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Article: Shout it from the rooftop: This sukkah is open to all
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- Jewish Exponent
- Article date:
- September 16, 1994
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Marilyn Silverstein
Jewish Exponent
09-16-1994
Shout it from the rooftop: This sukkah is open to all.
Travel to the Rothenberg Tower at 1518 Walnut St., take the elevator to the 18th floor, climb the 25 carpeted steps to the tower's penthouse and walk outside onto the high-walled rooftop.
There, 18 stories above Center City's hubbub, its canvas walls flapping in an autumnal wind, is a prefabricated, canvas and aluminum kosher sukkah - a modern-day, urban evocation of the ancient booths in which the Israelites dwelled in the desert.
"Ye shall dwell in booths seven days," reads the passage in the book of Leviticus that heralds the festival of Sukkot.
"All that are home-born in Israel shall dwell ...
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