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
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…
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: 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,…