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A Sukkot tradition

A Dry Bones cartoon by Yaakov Kirschen about Sukkot.

Dry Bones
Dry Bones Sukkot
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
(Oct. 4, 2023 / JNS)

A growing part of our annual Jerusalem march is the number of Christians from around the world who now take part.

The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem holds a Feast of Tabernacles on Sukkot every year. This year’s event has brought about 3,000 Christians from more than 80 nations, including groups from Egypt, Turkey and as far away as Fiji.

A specially chartered flight from Fiji Airways made its first-ever landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport just in time to bring in a contingent of Fijian Christian supporters of Israel who will, of course, be marching with Israeli participants in this, our 68th annual Jerusalem march.

Dry Bones
Dry Bones Dry Bones
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.
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