They are part of the Jewish celebration called the Feast of Tabernacles, which commemorates the 40-year period when the Israelites lived in the desert after leaving Egypt.

The holiday also can be translated as Feast of Tabernacles or Festival of Booths. It is one of Judaism's three central pilgrimage festivals - along with Passover and Shavuot.

The eight-day holiday of Sukkot that began on the evening of Monday, October 13, is known in English — quaintly, to our ears — as the “Feast of Booths” or the “Feast of Tabernacles ...

In the Bible, the prayer book and Jewish tradition, the holiday of Sukkot — the “Feast of Booths” or “Feast of Tabernacles,” as it is generally referred to in rather archaic English ...

Last month, International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ) President Juergen Buehler, whose organization plans the week-long Feast of Tabernacles celebration, said on a webinar that he feared ...