A Night for Schmoozing and Noshing

October 17, 2019 JMORE Staff

Rabbi Etan Mintz helps children shake lulov and etrog during the "Sukkot Under the Stars" event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)

Rabbi Etan Mintz helps children shake the lulav and etrog during the "Sukkot Under the Stars" event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)

It might’ve been a wet and windy Wednesday night, but the folks at Beth El @ Federal Hill didn’t let that stop their Sukkot soiree.

To celebrate the Festival of Booths, preschool students, parents, faculty members and others at Beth El @ Federal Hill gathered Oct. 16 for “Sukkot Under the Stars.”

The 90-minute gathering, at the school’s location at 1530 Battery Ave., was billed as a night of schmoozing and noshing to celebrate the eight-day holiday. It was Beth El @ Federal Hill’s first Sukkot party ever.

Beth El @ Federal Hill is the only Jewish preschool in the downtown area. Among those in attendance at “Sukkot Under the Stars” was Rabbi Etan G. Mintz, spiritual leader of B’nai Israel Synagogue in East Baltimore.

B’nai Israel’s Rabbi Etan Mintz (left) and Beth El music teacher Morah Becky Gordon lead a puppet program during the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Children and parents participate in the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Rabbi Etan Mintz helps children shake the lulav and etrog during the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Clara Wexler, 4, holds her four-month-old sister, Lia, in a sukkah during the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Brothers Shai (left), 3, and Noam Neft (center), 5, place thatch on the roof of a small sukkah during the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Children create a small sukkah during the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Mike Rubin helps his 18-month-old daughter, Ida, place an etrog in a small sukkah during the “Sukkot Under the Stars” event at Beth El preschool in Federal Hill. (Photo by Steve Ruark)