From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Fuel for a festival
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – It is no easy matter to initiate a new holiday. Although the ancient Israelites could base their festival calendar on…
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From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Napoleonic Codes
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – I recently reread Tolstoy’s War and Peace. When reading literary classics, I am often searching for a Jewish angle that…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Of vanities and vehicles
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Jewish thinkers have long been puzzled by the rabbis’ choice of the book of Kohelet [Ecclesiastes] as the designated reading…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: An order of fast food
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – After outlining the laws for observing a day of atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Torah…
Book shows that in 1942 Hitler had plans for US and Canada
By Regan Treewater-Lipes (AJNews) – Edmontonians who attended or live streamed this year’s Yom Ha’Shoah memorial observance at the Alberta Legislature grounds will certainly remember…