tisha b'av

Israeli Jews visit the Temple Mount compound, site of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Old City, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 8, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
Tisha B’Av and the mainstreaming of the Temple discourse
The further Israel moves from a solution to the conflict, the more it finds itself in need of the symbols of the religious right. As long as liberal Israelis do not fully renounce the sanctification of blood and land, they will be unable to present a real alternative.   By Yudith Oppenheimer I have not adhered to…
By +972 Magazine July 22, 2018
A. (right) is arrested by Border Police, while the Jewish boy who accused A. of assaulting him, Jerusalem's Old City, July 25, 2015. (photo: Mahmoud Illean)
The story behind the viral ‘apartheid’ photo
Recently, a photograph made waves for its apparent depiction of the disparities in the treatment of Israeli and Palestinian minors. This is what happened to the boys in the photo, with a strange twist involving an Israeli soldier lost in a Palestinian village.  By Avi Blecherman (translated by Hadas Leonov) The following story is going…
By +972 Magazine August 19, 2015
Transgender person dressed as ultra-Orthodox man at Jerusalem Pride Parade, June 26, 2008 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Fanning flames of hatred in Jerusalem on Tisha B’Av
As in years past, fundamentalists in Jerusalem are attempting to incite the ultra-Orthodox against the LGBT community. Judaism, however, is not an enemy of tolerance. By Elinor Sidi The Jerusalem LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community again encountered hateful signs plastered across the city this week, as seen in the below pashkevil (Yiddish bulletin…
By +972 Magazine July 16, 2013
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Poster for 2048, a film by Yaron Kaftori.
In the Israeli film “2048,” the Jewish state no longer exists
An Israeli director has made a film that imagines a near future in which Israel has ceased to exist, fading into history. Yaron Kaftori’s “2048” was screened at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque last summer on Tisha b’Av – the date on which observant Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second temples, which preceded…
By Lisa Goldman November 12, 2010
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