To seize the moment and make room for joy and gratitude alongside pain and loss is a fundamental Jewish practice.
Tisha b’Av for me has been about the enormous suffering that still exists in the world, the billions whose lives are food insecure, sanitation-less, healthcare bereft, and whose cultures are threatened because poverty has forced them into exile.
The university condemned the graffiti as “a symbol of hate.”
Marcos Iolovitch’s “On a Clear April Morning” is an especially exotic version of the Jewish immigrant experience.
The pay and benefits will go through the end of October, at least.
The procedure was to revise a bile duct stent.
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