The Times of Our Life: Brief Histories of Jewish Sacred Time

- Why did the League of Nations and the United Nations propose a calendar that threatened the observance of the Jewish Sabbath?-Why is Israel's Independence Day celebrated as a religious holiday?-How did the plague of frogs help resolve a border dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia?-Why did the biblical judge Deborah convene her court under a palm tree?-What practical lessons can we learn from the behavior of the villain Haman in the book of Esther?These are just a few of the fascinating topi...