Here's another fruit to squeeze into your knowledge of the citrus family: etrogs. The yellow citron, commonly referred to by its Hebrew name, etrog, is a fruit used in the Jewish harvest festival of ...

From the groves of Corfu and Cephalonia to the orchards of Tiberias and Jaffa, the saga of the etrog under Ottoman rule reveals how a fruit became entangled in struggles of faith and trade. Every fall ...

To read more articles from The Media Line, click here. For seven days each year, a decorated four-walled hut becomes home for the festive holiday of Sukkot, celebrated by Jews the world over. The ...

When is a piece of fruit more than a piece of fruit? The history and meaning of the etrog is explored in a new book. The etrog (citron) has a surprisingly lofty standing in Jewish law, literature, ...

(New York Jewish Week) — If you have never heard of an “etroger,” a Yiddish term for a Jewish merchant who sold citrons to Jewish communities in central and northern Europe during the Middle Ages and ...

The etrog, or citron fruit in English, is one of four species that Jews are Biblically commanded to "rejoice" with during the holiday of Sukkot. Below are 10 true and mostly joyful stories related to ...

“There is a Torah commandment which states, ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day [of Sukkot], the fruit of the beautiful [citron] tree. People take that commandment very seriously and ...

Abraham, our patriarch, was the personification of the characteristics of the etrog – the citron – which is one of the four kinds which we take over the festival of Sukkot. What logic can we read into ...

The mitzvah of taking the Four Species, arbaminim, on Sukkot serves as the paradigm of extra care in fulfilling commandments with beauty, hidurmitzvah. Since the Torah refers to the etrog (without ...

The etrog citron (Citrus medica) is a fruit with thousands of years of human use, much like the related Buddha’s hand fruit. Both are famous for their pleasing, room-filling aroma, but only the etrog ...

No Jewish holiday is more beloved among American and Israeli environmentalists than Sukkot. With its agricultural roots and its dictum to live close to the earth, Sukkot is the sine qua non of Jewish ...

“Etrog: The Wandering Fruit” is now on view at the Bernard Museum of Judaica, located inside Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side. (New York Jewish Week) — If you have never heard of an “etroger,” a ...