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October 20, 1989 - Image 58

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1989-10-20

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Special to The Jewish News

sraeli architects design-
ing apartment houses for
Orthodox and observant
Jews, especially in
Jerusalem and B'nai B'rak,
are faced with a problem not
encountered by most archi-
tects: providing space and
facilities for Sukkot.
Those who live in one-story
cottages and villas have no
problem — they can erect
their booths in their
gardens. But it is different if
the family lives in an
apartment block.
Israeli architecture is not
particularly outstanding
and with few exceptions,
medium- or high-rise Israeli
apartment blocks do not rate
photographs and descrip-
tions in architectural jour-
nals throughout the world.
By and large, Israeli towns
are noted for their
monotonous rows of flat-
roofed housing blocks.
In the early days, the
facades were varied by
balconies stuck on to the
fronts. But with rising living
standards, many house
owners blocked-in their
balconies to provide an
enlarged or extra room.
It was not long before the
architects decided to do
away with the external
balconies altogether and in-
corporate them inside the
building.
But even where outside
balconies were available,
Orthodox and observant
Jews found they could not
use them for the traditional
sukkah by merely fixing
poles to the outside corners,
stringing sheets or carpets to
the three outside sides and
covering the whole contrap-

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tion with lathes on which
greenery could be laid.
Such sukkot were not
kosher, as the floor of the
balcony upstairs obstructed
the view through the
s'chach, or leafy coverage, to
the open sky above, as re-
quired by Jewish law.
The solution found by the
enterprising architects
designing apartments for
the Orthodox community
was to stagger the jutting-
q out balconies along the
facade.
This meant that the ter-
race would be outside the
living room on the lower
floor, outside the bedroom on
the floor above, and outside
yet another room — even the
kitchen — on the next story.
The staggered balconieS
not only provide facilities for
even the most observant Jew
to be able to fulfill the mitz-
vah of eating and living in
his sukkah, with a view of
the sky and stars through
the leafy roof; they also
break the monotony of the
standard horizontal and ver-
tical lines of traditional
apartment blocks, by pro-
viding a slanting line across
the facade — an interesting
halachic and architectural
design solution.



Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Stone Soup

- Jerusalem — A stone taken
from the botanical garden of
the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem Mount Scopus
campus will be buried along
with stones from all over the
world at a ceremony in 'Ibkyo
marking the beginning of
construction of the largest
university auditorium in
Japan.

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