Temple Mount Blog Burst!
From KesherTalk, via Paelo Judaica:
Sunday was the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz, beginning the Three Weeks of somber reflection that lead to Tisha B'Av, the Jewish holy day commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples (in each case also the destruction of the Jewish nation at that time).Since the last of my summer classes end today I may have a fair chance of coming up with something for this.
During these three weeks, I am asking for contributions to a blogburst to appear just before Tisha B'Av.
The theme of this blogburst is the destruction of Temple Mount archeological relics under the authorization of the Muslim authority in charge of the Mount, in the context of ongoing propaganda attempts to erase Jewish history.
A "blogburst" is a simultaneous and cross-linked posting of many blogs on the same theme, usually to commemorate a particular event or to publicize a situation. The organizer makes a master blog entry with links to all the other blogposts on the topic.
Kesher Talk has spearheaded several blogbursts in the past, most notably commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Munich Olympics Massacre. That effort earned links from James Taranto's "Best of the Web" and Instapundit, among others.
Tisha B'Av begins the evening of Saturday August 13th and continues till the evening of Sunday August 14th. Because Shabbat is just the day before, please post your contribution and email me the permalink before 3 PM, Friday August 12th.
If you don't have a blog but would like to write on this topic, email me your essay and I will post it on Kesher Talk in its own permalink, and link to it from the main blogburst entry.
You don't have to be Jewish, or know anything about Tisha B'Av, to contribute to this blogburst. You can post solely about any of these topics, or in combination:
- the ongoing Temple Mount destruction and efforts to mitigate it
- the history of Jewish Jerusalem and Jewish residence in Israel (preferably that which can be corroborated by artifacts and documents)
- the disinformation campaign to falsify Middle Eastern history to erase the Jewish presence
- controversies about future Jewish and Muslim activity at the Temple Mount
- personal experiences at the Temple Mount
- Tisha B'Av: its rituals and many meanings
I have many URLs on these topics and will be happy to email them to you upon request, to assist you in writing your contribution. Of course, your own resources are welcome and desired.
Feel free to publicize this effort on your blog - the more contributors the better; that's how a blogburst works.
Judith Weiss
Kesher Talk
1 comments:
I'd be willing to bet that it wasn't an isolated incident, but I don't know for sure, since the Holocaust really isn't my area of expertice.
While eating blood is forbidden by Jewish Law, it is permissable if ones life is at stake. Jewish law dictates that all the commandments save three are suspended when a life is at risk. Those three are:
1) Denial of God
2) Murder (This doesn't include self-defence, which isn't classified as "murder")
3) Forbidden/incestual sexual activity.
So if the only food available is non-kosher than a Jew is permitted to eat it. However, in many of the death camps the Nazis would only serve the prisoners pork products, knowing it wasn't kosher, and the JEws would reefuse to eat it because they felt the Nazis were trying to humiliate them and blaspheme God. They chose to eat nothing rather than give the Nazis that satisfaction.
Sorry I can't give you anything more solid than that.
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