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…
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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…
From the Sources: Forces of Nature
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The original significance of the Fifteenth of Shevat [“Tu BiShvat] was to demarcate the agricultural year to which a fruit…
From the Sources: Happy Herod’s Day
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The first-century C.E. Latin satirist Persius Flaccus devoted one of his poems to the theme that even persons who are…
From the Sources: Abraham’s Daughter
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The Talmud tells of a group of rabbis who gathered for a festive meal in the sukkah of the exilarch,…