Sukkot And ‘Those Wooden Huts’ in Brooklyn Explained

If you live in Crown Heights, Borough Park or Williamsburg and you are not Jewish, you probably have wondered about the wooden, shack-like structures that are erected around the same time every year on the patios of apartment dwellings.

What are they?

The huts called sukkah are a large part of the celebration of Sukkot, the Hebrew word for “Feast of Booths,” one of the three Jewish pilgrimage and harvest holidays of celebration and thanksgiving…

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