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August 12, 2005

Temple Mount blogburst: Introduction and Index

Tisha B'Av - which begins tomorrow evening - commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnetzar (which led to the founding of the influential Jewish community of Babylonia), and again in 70 CE, by the Romans. It also serves as a catch-all day of mourning for other major Jewish historical calamities (such as the massacres of the Crusades), but its central text - Jeremiah's Eicha, or Lamentations - is an unflinching description of the horrors inflicted upon Jerusalem by Nebuchadnetzar's seige and massacre.

So now is also an appropriate time to revisit the condition of the Temple Mount, site of the holiest places in Jewish ritual, a topic I wrote on in my first weeks at Kesher Talk, and several times since.

This blogburst has several sections:

Temple Mount blogburst: Introduction (this page)
Temple Mount blogburst: Tisha B'Av
Temple Mount blogburst: Israel past present and future
Temple Mount blogburst: Jihadism and reality
Temple Mount blogburst: The Mount since 1967
Temple Mount blogburst: Poetry pierces the iron curtain

Judith | 08/12/05 at 04:49 PM | Categories: - Temple Mount blogburst

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» Poetry pierces the iron curtain from Winds of Change.NET
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» Not a second time from In Context
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» The Temple Mount blogburst from Exit Zero

At Kesher Talk: Tisha B'Av - which begins tomorrow evening - commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnetzar (which l...

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» The Temple Mount blogburst from Exit Zero

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Tracked on August 13, 2005 11:18 AM

» The Temple Mount blogburst from Dean's World

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» The Temple Mount blogburst from Dean's World

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Tracked on August 13, 2005 12:03 PM

» Temple Mount blogburst from ShrinkWrapped
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Tracked on August 13, 2005 05:53 PM

» Lamentations from Rishon Rishon
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Tracked on August 14, 2005 08:12 AM

» Lamentations from Rishon Rishon
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Tracked on August 14, 2005 02:11 PM

» Temple Mount Blogging from Mark Fox's Weblog
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Tracked on August 14, 2005 09:55 PM

» Blogburst & c. from Soccer Dad
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» Poetry from Poetry
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» Same old same old from Kesher Talk
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» Trying to avoid sinat chinam from Kesher Talk
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