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Chicken Soup's Label As 'Jewish Penicillin' Is More Whimsy Than Fact

Joe Schwarcz PhD — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:27:00 +0000

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette.

“As the Good Book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.”

Why is Chanukah referred to as the "Festival of Lights"?

Joe Schwarcz PhD — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:18:48 +0000

Around 175 BC, Israel came under the rule of the Syrian King Antiochus who wanted to obliterate the Jewish religion. Judah, leader of the Maccabees, a group of Jewish warriors, led a revolution against the Syrians and with an army of only six thousand defeated the Syrian army of 47,000. Eventually, the Maccabees liberated Jerusalem and rededicated the Holy Temple, which they did by lighting the Menorah, whose continuous burning symbolized the union of the different types of Jews and the eternal presence of God.

God, Glycerine, Flavouring, and Kosher Coca-Cola

Joe Schwarcz PhD — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:09:49 +0000

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.