Orthodox Jewish families enjoy time in Prospect Park during the Sukkot holiday week in Brooklyn, NY. Father and son say a prayer together. Sukkot is one of the three major festivals in Judaism, and is both an agricultural festival of thanksgiving and a commemoration of the forty-year period during which the children of Israel wandered in the desert after leaving slavery in Egypt, living in temporary shelters as they traveled.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York City, USA
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