Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of etrogs, yellow citrons used by Jews during Sukkot.
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Food Adventures in Etrog Marmalade
Autumn – and its component parts – will forever make me swoon. Bejeweled night skies, decisive evening breezes, the twin smells of fire and dried leaves. Most of all, I am in love with all things harvest. Of course, it goes to follow that Sukkot is my favorite Jewish holiday. Some of my fondest Sukkot…
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The Schmooze More Lulav Fraud!
How naïve we were! Last week, we reported with some surprise, revelations that black market lulavs were being smuggled into Israel. Now, it seems that lulav fraud doesn’t stop with smuggling. The Chief Rabbinate has put out notices in synagogues and public locations warning people to beware of lulavs whose tips have become split and…
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The Schmooze Black-Market Lulavs On the Rise at Sukkot
In the Mishnah on the subject of lulav and etrog, the species blessed on the upcoming festival of Sukkot, there’s a statement that one may not fulfill the mitzva of the lulav with a stolen lulav (palm branch). Well that’s largely been academic, as there isn’t much of a black market for lulavs and etrogs…….
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Life Avoiding a Hijacking by Lulav Rod
Many a peeved passenger has arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport this week. Some Diaspora Jews pay big money for their lulav or palm branch, waved with an etrog and two other species in synagogue over Sukkot. But airport security staff around the world have apparently become convinced that the protective lulav bags used to…
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Life Judy Blume: ‘I Was Margaret’ and Other Tidbits From Blogland
Over at Tablet, food writer Mimi Sheraton offers a meditation on the exalted, lemony etrog. On the same Web site, Manhattan writer C.A. Blomquist writes of beginning to study to convert to Judaism at age 52, and has an attendant podcast about taking the final plunge. In this Jewcy post about turning 30 on Yom…
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