Let us reap wisdom sown by tragedy of Tisha B’Av
Rabbi David Wolpe
August 3, 2011
This week we observe the fast of Tisha B’Av, commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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tragedy
Poland’s tragedy is our tragedy
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
When the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and dozens of other officials crashed in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia on Saturday, this immense disaster was also a personal tragedy.\n
Astronaut Ilan Ramon’s son dies in IAF crash
Jewish Journal
September 13, 2009
The son of the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon was killed in the crash of an Israeli Air Force fighter plane.
Beauty can arise from tragedy
Jewish Journal
September 25, 2008
As the events unfolded, it was a story that could only be measured against the biblical account of Job. It was everyone\’s worst nightmare.
Judith: The woman warrior who brought down a general
Robert David Jaffee
November 22, 2006
Arabian rugs and pillows are spread out in a tent as Holofernes, the general of the Assyrians, plots his victory over the Israelites. Wearing a tunic, he speaks lines of great beauty: \”I am overcome with wonder, trembling with a terrible infatuation.\” He is speaking of war, yet he might be anticipating the woman who will take him to bed later in the evening.That woman, the eponymous star of \”Judith: A Parting From the Body,\” resuming its run at the Theater of NOTE on Nov. 30, is the Jewish heroine known to readers of the Apocrypha.
Oops…Our 20th
Rob Eshman
March 2, 2006
The news these days is gruesome, so it\’s difficult to feel celebratory.
Exhibit Links Shoah, Cambodia Genocide
Robert David Jaffee
September 29, 2005
The juxtaposition of a Jew (Schanberg) and a Cambodian with the defaced Star of David subtly links the Holocaust, a genocide of the past, to the more recent Cambodian tragedy.
It is the synchronicity between peoples who have been massacred that inspired the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to exhibit \”Encountering the Cambodian Genocide.\” The exhibit features the photographs of Chantal Prunier, who visited Cambodia in the past year and came back with haunting images of mass graves, torture devices and survivors.
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