Unorthodox Celebrates Sukkot With Etrog Farmers in California and Etrog Sellers in New York City, Plus the Story of the Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma, California.
This week on Unorthodox, we’re celebrating the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Farmers and etrogs and sugar beets, oh my!
Who says Jews don’t farm? Stephanie Butnick reports from Petaluma, California, where activist Jews fleeing Eastern Europe in the early 1900s settled and became chicken ranchers. The politically minded chicken-farming Jews of Petaluma even got a visit from Golda Meir!