What do you eat on Sukkot?
Sukkot meal inspiration can come from the harvest origin of the holiday, and meals can include fresh fruits and vegetables, or other harvest-related ingredients. Of course, challah, chicken soup, and kugels are traditional Jewish foods that can be served on Sukkot (or any time of the year).
While you were in the sukkah.
The Jews were sitting in their sukkot when in 1187 the Crusaders of Jerusalem capitulated to Saladin. It was Sukkot, too, when The Israeli army conquered Be’er Sheva in 1948, The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962, The British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, survived an IRA assassination attempt in the Brighton Hotel Bombing of 1984, The Temple Mount Riots that left 17 Palestinians dead and over 100 wounded in 1990 also took place on Sukkot, The Million Man March took place in Washington D.C. in Sukkot of 1995, It was during Sukkot when following 9/11, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, Saddam Hussein's trial opened during Sukkot 2005, and Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed during Sukkot six years later, in 2011. This was the same Sukkot that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was released from Hamas captivity.