by danya | Aug 4, 2006 | Blog
Well, dunno ’bout you, but my Tisha B’Av was predictibly plenty. I have a tendency, when Eicha gets going, to intentionally or not get my finger stuck in the socket of great suffering (not just my own). All that feeling? Yeah, never a lot of fun. And this...
by danya | Aug 2, 2006 | Blog
That is all.
by danya | Aug 1, 2006 | Blog
Ynet reports, High Court allows group to visit Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av The High Court of Justice decided to allow the “Temple Mount Faithful” group to visit the Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av against the judgment of the Shin Bet and the police,...
by danya | Aug 1, 2006 | Blog
Despite the fact that it sometimes thinks so (or would like to believe,) Israel is not a country in Europe. One of the consequences of being, er, geographically out of the way of a lot of Western culture is that touring bands don’t come here a lot. (Often...
by danya | Aug 1, 2006 | Blog
A while ago, I decided that it would be very theologically appropriate for this current war to end right after Tisha B’Av, since everything really fell apart just before the beginning of the Three Weeks. I didn’t say anything when I first thought this,...
by danya | Jul 31, 2006 | Blog
Hey, anybody know where the following comes from? It’s a quote I think I copied from something in the JTS library nine million years ago (when I didn’t know anything, and didn’t even have the basic sense to note the source) for a short story I was...
