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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...
I’ve grown increasingly cynical of the way the Jewish college experience is discussed in our community. Over the last decade, millions have been invested on initiatives, organizations and programs ...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Saturday night participated in the reading of the Book of Eicha (Lamentations) at the President’s Synagogue in Jerusalem, addressing the recently-released and deeply ...
On Tisha Be’av, we will read Eicha, also known as the Book of Lamentations, which chronicles the devastating destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE. In these verses, it states: “Her adversaries ...
On Tisha B’Av, we read Lamentations, one of the most difficult books in the biblical canon. I once read that the opening of the book of Lamentations, or Eicha in Hebrew, is pronounced with a catch of ...
The Qumran edition of the Book of Lamentations (Eicha) will be on display for a four-day period, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week, in a special exhibit in honor of Tisha B'Av ...
Lamentations – Faith in a Turbulent World, by Dr. Yael Ziegler, remedies our overall reluctance to better understand Lamentations and conveys the book’s complex concepts and ideas clearly. The Book of ...