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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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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 ...

EXETER, Calif. — 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.

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 ...

“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 ...