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Ancient rituals in the Old City during Sukhot

Photos by Q. Sakamaki
Photos by Q. Sakamaki

Last month, during the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukhot, Q. Sakamaki photographed the scene in Jerusalem’s Old City, including at the Western Wall. In these photos, a Hasidic, ultra-Orthodox Jew prays at the Wall, with the date-palm frond of his lulav — held during Sukhot prayers — projecting above his head; a young boy reads the Torah by the Wall; a group of female Israeli soldiers walk by the Wall; a Palestinian woman and boy walk near the Old City’s Damascus Gate; and a young Jewish woman’s reflection is seen in the window of the bus in which she is riding. Sakamaki, an internationally renowned documentary and conflict photographer, was a longtime East Villager before relocating to the Upper West Side a few years ago.

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