“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...