Hannukah Sukkah Sale!

It's that time of year again! A couple of months after Sukkot, the sukkah stores tend to offer their unsold wares at a discount, so it's a great time to get what you should have bought in the first place. Last January I bought our bamboo mat roof.

This month, The Sukkah Project is offering 10 percent off everything from this past sukkah season from now until the end of Hannukah. Plus they're offering discounts on other beautiful Judaica pieces that are perfect for Hannukah gifts. Enter the code SALE at checkout.

Tzedakah for Sandy

Noah is proud that he gave away two gently used backpacks from summer camp to kids who need them.

I've been a bit preoccupied during the last two weeks. You know--superstorm, power outages, internet outages, the gas shortage, no school ... And on top of that I was trying to keep the public informed as the Westfield editor of The Alternative Press.

Now that things are starting to feel a little less apocalyptic, our family is thinking about how lucky we are in all this. Friends of ours are out of their house because a huge tree fell through the top floor. Entire communities have been washed away.

We decided it's time to break open the tzedakah boxes. Noah has one we've been putting coins into since he was born, and we have two more that we add to every Shabbat. On top of that, there's a big coin bank on top of Eric's dresser full of loose change that we've decided should be a tzedakah box, as well. All told, we probably have about $150 in coins that we're going to take to the bank with the kids to be sent somewhere worthwhile.

The question is: Where should we send it?