Despite the obvious hierarchy among the four elements, they are all included in one arrangement, thereby modeling the ideal of an inclusive society. There are few mitzvot as colorful or as diverse as ...

Sukkot is a holiday about homes–both the permanent and temporary sort–and homelessness. It commemorates how we wandered in the desert with no protection from the elements and no fixed place we could ...

In his cluttered studio in Ashdod, Hananya Goodman sits in front of a canvas, with the lulav (palm branch), drenched in deep black ink in his hand. After many thin incoherent brush strokes, splatters, ...

The email came amid the last-minute flurry of preparations, as I was hurriedly shoving long skirts and a mosquito net into a beat-up hiking backpack, just a few hours before my flight to Uganda for a ...

No Jewish holiday is more beloved among American and Israeli environmentalists than Sukkot. With its agricultural roots and its dictum to live close to the earth, Sukkot is the sine qua non of Jewish ...

American legislators, Israeli officials and Jewish groups are working diplomatic channels in an effort to stave off a looming lulav shortage ahead of Sukkot. Their efforts follow a surprise move by ...

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of lulav - a positive Torah commandment - the Mishna (Sukkah 3a) states: When the first day of Sukkot falls on Shabbat, all of the Jews bring their lulavim to synagogue (on Erev Shabbat because of the ...

In Tirat Zvi, Buddhists are the experts on kosher lulavs. The Thai agricultural workers who labor in the kibbutz’s date plantation are the first to separate the kosher palm fronds from the rest. The ...

Lulav has been, is and — as long as it survives — will always be an enigma. It opened in 2004 as a Kosher restaurant that was closed for Shabbat from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, not a good ...

Will the last-minute Egyptian ban on lulav exports to Israel cause their prices to be as high as a palm tree's top? Many Israeli consumers are concerned it will – but the biggest Four Species retailer ...