Growing up in a mostly Orthodox neighborhood in Queens in the 1980s, I watched as my neighbors' backyards and front porches filled with the same prefabricated sukkot each autumn. A bamboo mat provided the roof — or schach, as my Hebrew school teachers called it.
Growing up in a mostly Orthodox neighborhood in Queens in the 1980s, I watched as my neighbors' backyards and front porches filled with the same prefabricated sukkot each autumn.
A bamboo mat provided the roof — or schach, as my Hebrew school teachers called it.
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Growing up in a mostly Orthodox neighborhood in Queens in the 1980s, I watched as my neighbors' backyards and front porches filled with the same prefabricated sukkot each autumn. A bamboo mat provided the roof — or schach, as my Hebrew school teachers called it.
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