(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 ...

Jews joke that if Halloween were a Jewish holiday, pumpkins would cost $36, or $72 for a really nice one. As is, October’s Jewish holiday, Sukkot, brings frightening prices that aren’t a joke. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a temporary warehouse in Israel's ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, Shaul Kalimi examines etrogs. From boxes stacked nearby, he takes one bumpy green citrus at a time out of padded wrapping, holds ...

The etrog or citron, or esrog, as it is called in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Hebrew, is a curious fruit. Historically the earliest of the citrus fruits to be introduced into the Mediterranean and into ...

The Chessed Etrog Project began two years ago, following the attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Many farmers in Israel were struggling, both due to a shortage of workers and difficulties distributing and ...

SeEditor’s Note: Sukkot is the annual Jewish harvest festival that commemorates the 40 years the Israelites spent in the desert in the book of Exodus. As part of the holiday, branches from the palm ...

Answer: I advise you to do as you have done all the other years and as I and my entire family do: buy an Israeli etrog and lulav (if they are available). Our great Gaonim of generations past always ...

“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 ...

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 ...