From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Holiness by the numbers
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The Torah is not very informative about how it chose the date for the holiday that we celebrate as “Rosh…
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From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: In your dreams!
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Compared to some other topics in Jewish religious law, the Torah’s criteria for kosher and non-kosher fish seem very straightforward:…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: De-Bugging Titus
by Eliezeer Segal (AJNews) – General Titus Caesar Vespasianus led the Roman forces against the Jewish insurrection in Palestine, presided over the destruction of Jerusalem…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: The letters of the law
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – For many of my contemporaries, the quintessential visual representation of the life of Moses is Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 cinematic…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Hurray for the Hyksos
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – In every generation, some people are determined to deny the reality of Jewish nationhood. In the first century C.E., an…