Palm branches were awarded to athletes and gladiators ... Species used in the daily prayers during the Jewish festival of ...

Important ritual objects on sukkot include the lulav (a bundle of different types of branches) and an etrog (a species of citrus fruit commonly found in the Middle East).

NEW YORK (JTA) — The holiday of Sukkot isn’t complete without a ... of the holiday “take the product of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the ...

including a palm branch, myrtle, and willow. These plants are built into the temporary shelters and waved in a prayer ritual ...

But every summer he moves into a structure with dirt walls and a roof made of branches outside this village ... communities on three continents for Sukkot. On the fall harvest holiday, Jews ...

Sukkot is a festival celebrated by Jewish people ... an etrog (which is a bit like a lemon), and a bundle of myrtle, palm and willow sticks called a lulav. During the festival these are held ...