From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Beyond an (eye) shadow of a doubt
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – In the Bible and in subsequent Jewish and Christian traditions, the name Jezebel provokes very unfavourable associations. A native of…
Humour
Jackie Mason was a Jewish American comedy icon. These videos show why.
BY PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — Jackie Mason, who died Saturday at 93, didn’t always set out to be a comedian. In fact, it wasn’t until he…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: The fascination with vaccination
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Rabbi Pinhas Elijah Hurwitz was an itinerant Lithuanian scholar whose travels took him to Galicia, Poland, Prussia, Holland, Hungary and…
From the Sources: Drifting above the Law
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Until the previous American administration, many of us simply accepted the premise that nobody is above the law as a…
Michael Sadovnick: Did Moshe have to pay tax to Pharoh?
By Michael Sadovnick (AJNews) – I was reviewing the story of Passover when I thought about a taxpayer who I spoke to a number of…