Sukkot is a week long Jewish holiday that is going on right now. The Jews build sukkots meaning "booths" out of wood and palm fronds in remembrance of the temporary housing structures the Israelites lived in as they traveled in the wilderness after the Exodus from Egypt. During the holiday Jews eat their meals in the sukkots and some of the Orthodox Jews sleep in them.
Adorable blonde boy with his curls.
Fancy Jewish Mom with the coolest baby carriage I have ever seen.
Boys selling the "Four Species", a practice I will talk more about tomorrow. 
Family eating in a sukkot.
Hippies passing through West Jerusalem.
One of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Haredi known as Ultra Orthodox Jews live in this area. The people in this neighborhood were fascinating. I tried to be respectful and not take too many pictures of them, especially not up close.
They build sukkots on their decks. You can see part of a sukkot on the far right of this picture with the palm frond roof.
Sukkots on the decks.
I didn't know that we would be going to this neighborhood when we headed out for the day, thankfully I was dressed modest enough!
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