Lulav

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High Holidays 2018
Sukkot: The harvest festival and arrival of autumn
Ethel G. HofmanJNS24.09.2018
Celebrating a weeklong emphasis on food, family, friends, tradition and the great outdoors.
An etrog, silver etrog box and lulav, used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Congregation Beth Am in San Diego, Calif. Youth Department's recent “sukkah hop.” Courtesy.
featureA hop and a happy mess: Sukkot under the stars
Deborah Fineblum
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High Holidays 2018
A hop and a happy mess: Sukkot under the stars
Deborah Fineblum24.09.2018
A sukkah reinforces the key role such home-based traditions have in Jewish life.
Congregation Beth Am in San Diego, Calif. Youth Department's recent “sukkah hop.” Courtesy.
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High Holidays 2018
Sukkot: The harvest festival and arrival of autumn
Ethel G. Hofman24.09.2018
Celebrating a weeklong emphasis on food, family, friends, tradition and the great outdoors.
An etrog, silver etrog box and lulav, used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Banning some, giving others: Shaky presence of lulavs and etrogs at Israel’s airport
04.09.2018
A task force will begin operating at Ben-Gurion International Airport in the next few days, charged with preventing the import of three of the four species necessary for the traditional celebration of Sukkot.
An observant Jewish man examines a palm branch, known as a lulav, for imperfections in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sept. 21, 2010, a few days before the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash 90.
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