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The Three Weeks and Tisha B'Av

Wait Until Next YearMishpachaJuly 25, 2007

Any Jew today who worries only about the insular community in which he lives and does not mourn the hemorrhaging of the Jewish people to assimilation and intermarriage is not be numbered among the seekers of Zion or the builders of the Bais HaMikdash.

A Powerful Metaphor, but does it Work?Yated Ne'emanJuly 17, 2007

So I don't expect many of those who view From the Ashes this Tisha B'Av to fully grasp the metaphor, to break down sobbing the way the secular Israeli broke down at Auschwitz. But maybe we can at least shed a tear over our own deadness,.

The enemy within us (London as Moshol)Mishpacha MagazineAugust 4, 2005

As indeviduals to we experience moments of brutal clarity in which we recognize that our chief enemy is within

Knowing what we are missingBaltimore Jewish TimesAugust 8, 2003

Until we can cry for our enstrangement from what we once possessed and are now lacking, we cannot regain it

Too Much Mourning or Too Little?Jerusalem PostJuly 19, 2002

A look at Israel and the Jewish people today shows that mourning on Tisha b'Av is by no means unnecessary.

Why we love to hateJerusalem PostJuly 27, 2001

People sustain themselves by cataloguing others' failures instead of achieving on their own

Abolish the Three Weeks?Jerusalem PostJuly 16, 1999

Attack on Ismar Schorsch

Happy Tisha B'AvJerusalem PostJuly 31, 1998

Reform's position on the destruction of the Temple and the significance of the Western Wall

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