{"id":453411,"date":"2026-10-01T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453411\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:02:11","slug":"beth-yeshurun-holds-mexican-themed-sukkot-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453411\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Yeshurun holds Mexican-themed Sukkot party"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cMexukkah\u201d featured an enormous food display. Photos by JHV: DANIEL BISSONNET<\/p>\n


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By DANIEL BISSONNET | For the JHV\u2022<\/p>\n

Thu, Oct 1, 2026<\/p>\n

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More than 250 congregants and their guests gathered in Beth Yeshurun\u2019s sukkah for the third night of Sukkot, Sept. 27, to enjoy Mexukkah! \u2013 a Mexican-themed celebration in the sukkah. <\/p>\n

Live mariachi music played continuously all evening, at times booming dance music with interludes of relaxing melodies.<\/p>\n

Guests moved easily through two buffet lines of Mexican favorites, including fajitas, fruit and desserts.<\/p>\n

Rabbis Brian Strauss and David Mendelson took turns describing the blessings and how to shake the lulav and etrog together in six directions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gathering is always popular with Beth Yeshurun\u2019s community members,\u201d said Rabbi Strauss. \u201cIt is a chance to gather together outside and share our joy with each other as the sun sets. I am proud of the team that put this all together. The kitchen staff has done a terrific job, as well as the event planners and facilitators.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the meal concluded, a line for the pi\u00f1ata grew to several dozen excited children. This year, instead of a single large pi\u00f1ata, there were half a dozen smaller fruit-themed pi\u00f1atas. The kids cooperated well taking turns, but of course, when the pi\u00f1ata spilled its sweets, there was a scramble to collect the candies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cMexukkah\u201d featured an enormous food display. Photos by JHV: DANIEL BISSONNET …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,116482,31274,116481,116480,116479,12008,27],"class_list":["post-453411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-synagogues","tag-jewish","tag-jewish-herald-voice","tag-jewish-news","tag-jhv","tag-newspaper","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}