ATONING AND PREPARING
After a service for Yom Kippur, Rose Formam, 7, with help from her dad, Martin, takes yarn from the center of a sukkah built by the congregation of Sinai Synagogue in Stamford on Thursday. A sukkah is a temporary hut constructed for use during the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot. Sukkot commemorates the years the Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land and celebrates the way in which God protected them under difficult desert conditions. At right, Larry Stoogenki pushes a tied piece of yarn to the top of the pole at the center of the sukkah.