Is there a better way to celebrate the festival of Sukkot than by noshing an etrog-flavored ice cream cone while sitting inside a mobile sukkah with family and friends?
Nope!
On Sunday Oct. 8, Charm City Tribe’s mobile sukkah paid its fifth annual visit to The Charmery in Hampden, one of Baltimore’s favorite ice creameries. Visitors feasted on frozen concoctions, shook lulavs, socialized and enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather.
Rabbi Jessy Gross, senior director of Jewish Life at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore, said Sunday’s rain did not keep approximately 50 celebrants — families with young children, as well as young adults — away from the sukkah mobile.
“Some planned to join us, and others stumbled into us,” she said. The afternoon also included a talk on Baltimore’s water affordability crisis by the Baltimore branch of Jews United for Justice.
This evening, the mobile sukkah will visit R. House at 301 W. 29th St. in Remington. The event will include a service project led by Repair the World, and a truck from Union Craft Brewery will also be on hand.. “In general, we try to give people an opportunity to get together with others to celebrate the Jewish holidays,” said Rabbi Gross.
Photos by Lisa Shifren Photography
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