Letter to the Editor: Appreciating ‘From the Sources’ column by Eliezer Segal
Dear Editor: Just a word of appreciation of and support for Eliezer Segal’s always erudite, always informative FROM THE SOURCES dept. Some readers may find…
Eliezer Segal
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…
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: Make mine a grande fig latte
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – When the Bible wants to extoll the merits of the promised land, it often praises it as “a land flowing…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Mysterious Mordecai
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – In the annals of English literature, the most prominent bearer of the name “Mordecai” was a Jewish character who played…