Booths, Cairns, and Tabernacles

"All who are skillful among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded...." - Exodus 35:10

For 875 years, two families have provided devoted service to a religion not their own. They do so to preserve an ancient honor that exists between Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem.

A member of the prominent Nuseibeh clan of Jerusalem will begin each day in a routine, yet remarkable, manner. He will travel to the household of the equally prominent Joud…