Jewish Holiday Of Sukkoth Celebrated At Western Wall In Jerusalem

Covered in prayer shawl, an ultra-orthodox Jewish man of the Cohanim Priestly caste prays during the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth in front of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. The Cohanim, believed to be descendants of priests who served God in the Jewish Temple before it was destroyed, perform a blessing ceremony of the Jewish people three times a year during the festivals of Passover, Shavuot and Sukkoth. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Jewish men attend the priest’s blessing Cohanim prayer during the annual pilgrimage holiday of Sukkot, or the feast of the Tabernacles, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Oct. 3, 2012 . (Xinhua/Yin Dongxun)

A Jewish man attends the priest’s blessing Cohanim prayer during the annual pilgrimage holiday of Sukkot, or the feast of the Tabernacles, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Oct. 3, 2012 . (Xinhua/Yin Dongxun)

Jewish visitors sit inside a Sukkah near the site known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, as they celebrate the holiday of Sukkot in the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. The Sukkah huts commemorate the temporary, portable dwellings in which the Jewish people lived during their 40-year sojourn in the wilderness that followed their liberation from slavery in Egypt. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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