News and Commentary

Eliezer Segal’s Newspaper Articles

News and Commentary

  1. Why the Olympic Spirit Lacks a Jewish Neshama
  2. A Rock for a Rock
  3. Mulroney’s Persian Predecessor
  4. Some Jewish Rushdies
  5. Judaism and Ecology
  6. When Jews Wore Turbans
  7. Baghdad: For Centuries a Major Centre of Jewish Life
  8. Vowels to Poland in New Israeli Trade Pact
  9. Moses King of Ethiopia
  10. The First Rabbi on the Moon
  11. Moses the Mailman
  12. “With Righteous Judgment”: Jewish Reflections on the Clarence Thomas Appointment
  13. Talking Clean, Talking Dirty
  14. Cutthroat Competition
  15. The Exploding Cow and the Jewish Question
  16. A Talmudic “Quiz Show”
  17. Academic Tenure: The Halakhic Debate
  18. The Ethnic Vote: Duisburg 1910
  19. Doña Gracia’s Blockade
  20. Coalition Bargaining
  21. Encounter with a Lion
  22. Excavations and Imaginations
  23. Home Team Blues
  24. The Force is With Us
  25. Dolly and the Golem
  26. Striking Similarities
  27. Nor All That Glisters
  28. You Can Bank on It
  29. The Wagers of Sin
  30. Affairs of State
  31. Ransom Notes
  32. Prophets, Protests and Pepper-Spray
  33. Going to the Ants
  34. Millennium Fever
  35. The Crown of Aleppo
  36. The Vice-President of Granada
  37. Majority Rules
  38. The Price Is Right
  39. Baldness, Bears and Bottled Water
  40. Pushing Torah
  41. Hiwi the Heretic
  42. All’s Well That Ends Well
  43. Accounting for Accountability
  44. Spreading Like Wild Fire
  45. Adding Insult to Injury
  46. Cannibals in Canaan
  47. Defender of Liberty
  48. A Study in Scarlet
  49. The Court is Adjourned
  50. Artistic License
  51. First Nations
  52. This Little H1N1 Stayed Home
  53. Identity Crisis
  54. Fowl Play 
  55. Stop the Presses!
  56. Loose Lips
  57. Sweetening the Waters
  58. Liberating Libya
  59. Going for the Gold
  60. The Price is Wrong
  61. Gentlemen of the Jury…
  62. Wrongheaded Thinking
  63. Tadmor: Warlords and Warrior Queens
  64. The Poem on the Pedestal
  65. Cagney, Kelly…and a Coin Clattering in a Keg
  66. With Rod or Whip
  67. Drifting above the Law
  68. The Fascination with Vaccination
  69. Look Who’s Not Talking