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	CHAGIM (HOLIDAYS)
		*Sukkot* Have your school or synagogue partner with Habitat for Humanity and build a house for someone less fortunate. Visit their website www.habitat.org for more information about building homes as well as the other projects they offer. Promote homelessness awareness in your community. Find out what local agencies deal with homelessness and how you can help them. Offer to share your lulav and etrog to someone who does not have one. Arrange an event to decorate your synagogue's sukkah. Have a decoration drive for people who cannot afford to beautify their sukkah. Create a community wide gemach for old sukkot and any related items. Arrange a community wide event (you can call it "Pizza in the Hut") for chol haMoed (the intermediate days of the holiday). On Simchat Torah after all the area synagogues complete their individual hakafot hold a communal hakafa to celebrate achdut (Jewish unity). Use this as an opportunity to study environmental issues and encourage recycling. Plant a garden at a shelter, nursing home, hospital or synagogue. In the spirit of the Ushpizin, the tradition of inviting one of the seven biblical leaders (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David) to our sukkah each night of Sukkot, invite people to your sukkah who are alone or need a place to eat. Ask around if anyone needs help building their sukkah. Contact the chaplain of the local hospital to get the list of Jewish patients, and go around to them during sukkot with a smile and lulav and etrog. Ask if they would be interested in reciting the blessing on the lulav and etrog and shaking the four species. Return to Chagim List