NEW YORK (JTA) — The holiday of Sukkot isn’t complete without a lulav and an etrog, two of the four species that Jews are commanded to wave on the harvest holiday. But according to a new book, it wasn ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmer Greg Kirkpatrick checks a citron hanging from a tree at Lindcove Ranch. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) The citron is an ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Rebecca Kanthor, a member of a progressive Jewish community in Shanghai, knows that she can easily order lulavs and etrogs in a few clicks online. Kanthor, who belongs to ...

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, ...

Give a citron to the average cook, and she’ll see a bumpy-skinned citrus fruit with a fragrant peel. She might stir the grated zest into cake batter, shave it onto salads, boil it into marmalade or ...

The peach dumpling I’m eating as I write this looks like a starchy, speckled globe: a whole peach, wrapped in a dumpling shell and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. It’s certainly tasty, but it’s not as ...

This New York rabbi wrote the book on the etrog’s history. NEW YORK (JTA) — The holiday of Sukkot isn’t complete without a lulav and an etrog, the four species that Jews are commanded to wave on the ...

The citron is an unusual fruit. It's an ancient citrus varietal, one that's lumpy, wrinkly and somewhat oblong. You won't find it in most grocery stores. It's not a La Croix flavor. It isn't showing ...