“Why is God constantly asking us to celebrate while there is immense suffering?” a student asked me last year during Sukkot. Sukkot has multiple names, including Z’man Simchateinu, the Season of Our Joy. Yet at its heart, the Festival of Booths remembers the 40 years of wandering of our ancestors, whose lives were marked by […]
Zion Nadav
Zion Nadav is the director of Jewish student life at Santa Cruz Hillel. A Jewish educator and community builder, she is passionate about ritual, storytelling and Judaism’s earth-based traditions that root resilience and joy in both ancestral wisdom and the rhythms of creation.