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Is it the End of the World?
Day of Destruction
By
Jim Fletcher
Today marks the Jewish day commemorating the destruction of the two Jewish temples in antiquity; the first by the Babylonians in the sixth-century B.C. The Romans repeated this destruction in Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Tisha B’Av (“The 9th of Av”) is a solemn day for Jews, especially in Israel. The recent violence unleashed by the…
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