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