{"id":16059,"date":"2015-11-27T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2015-11-24T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:09:05","slug":"beautifying-a-sukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2015\/11\/27\/beautifying-a-sukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautifying a sukkah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Grade 6 and 7 girls of Vancouver Hebrew Academy joined Louis Brier Home and Hospital residents in making decorations for the home\u2019s sukkah. <em>(photos from Vancouver Hebrew Academy)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nov-27VHA-people.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nov-27VHA-people-300x297.png\" alt=\"photo - Grade 6 and 7 girls of Vancouver Hebrew Academy joined Louis Brier Home and Hospital residents in making decorations for the home\u2019s sukkah\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nov-27VHA-people.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nov-27VHA-people-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Just before Sukkot, the Grade 6 and 7 girls of Vancouver Hebrew Academy were warmly welcomed to Louis Brier Home and Hospital, where they visited with the residents and worked on a special project. Together, the students and residents created stained glass-style decorations for the Louis Brier\u2019s sukkah.<\/p>\n<p>It is a mitzvah to beautify the sukkah and, in this art project, several mitzvot overlapped, including connecting the younger generation with those who laid the groundwork for our community \u2013 for which we are grateful \u2013 and helping both the residents and children celebrate the holiday of Sukkot with an extra level of beauty and simcha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 6 and 7 girls of Vancouver Hebrew Academy joined Louis Brier Home and Hospital residents in making decorations for the home\u2019s sukkah. (photos from Vancouver Hebrew Academy) Just before Sukkot, the Grade 6 and 7 girls of Vancouver Hebrew Academy were warmly welcomed to Louis Brier Home and Hospital, where they visited with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1000,2171,2169,3332],"class_list":["post-16059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-louis-brier-home-and-hospital","tag-sukkah","tag-sukkot","tag-vha"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}