At Gelfenbein (Towers) dining hall, you may have noticed the pop-up hut on the patio and people shaking a long stick-like plant; it’s called a lulav and is held next to a large lemon-like fruit, ...

A central aspect of the holiday Sukkot concerns the "Four Kinds" -- different ritual plants; the most important is the etrog, an uncommon citrus fruit. Choosing an etrog can be challenging due to ...

Each year, five days after Yom Kippur, the Jewish festival of Sukkot is celebrated. Paying homage to the protection God provided while the Jews spent 40 years in the desert after exiting Egypt ...

The etrog should be kept away from moisture. ... Afterwards, the bottom part of the style thickens and gradually develops into the etrog fruit.

Art and materials on display at “Etrog: The Wandering Fruit” include, from left: Johann Bodenschatz’s “Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden,” Erlangen, 1748, showing various Sukkot scenes, and ...

Shas leader Aryeh Deri boasted in a video filmed and broadcast on Sunday of spending $5,000 on an etrog – the citrus fruit used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot – seemingly admitting to ...

Fruit detective David Karp puts the squeeze on citron. These days, it's most often found in ... the Jewish harvest festival. As a journalist, David Karp became so fascinated with citron, called etrog ...

From that research was born the exhibit, “Etrog, The Wandering Fruit,” currently on display at the Bernard Museum, located inside Temple Emanu-El on 5th Avenue and 65th Street in Manhattan.

The Hebrew word for citrus fruit like the etrog is pri hadar, which literally means “glorious fruit.” Lurie adds that the etrog “has to have a nice shape and perfect cleanliness.

The etrog plays a central role on Sukkot, when Jews are commanded to hold it as they shake the lulav and recite the holiday’s prayers. The fruit’s ritual significance has given rise to a ...

A California farm grows citrons, known in Hebrew as the etrog, a fruit used to celebrate Sukkot. This year's crop tested the farm's owner in ways he never imagined.

The fruit’s ritual significance has given rise to a competitive marketplace: Some Jews pay hundreds of dollars for the perfect fruit and spend hundreds more on etrog boxes. A GIANT ETROG grows ...