The evening of July 27, 2012, was the 9th day of Av (Tish’a B’Av) according to the Jewish calendar. In 586 BC and in 70 AD, on the 9th of Av, both the First and Second Temples were destroyed. Ensconced in tradition, this day is remembered yearly. Jews in Mumbai, Moscow, Munich, Madrid, Mexico City […]
Category Archives: Anti-Messianics
In Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice discovers three gardeners busily working on a large rose bush, painting red paint onto white roses. In response to her curious question, one of the gardeners explains, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a […]
At approximately 2:30 pm on Thursday March 20, during the biblical Feast of Purim (see the Book of Esther 9:26-32), 15 year old Ami Ortiz (the youngest of six children) opened what appeared to be a box of holiday chocolates. The box, gaily decorated and with the chocolates visible through the plastic wrapping, had been […]
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