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A Time To Be Icky: Tisha B’Av and James Dickey’s “The Sheep-Child”

July 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Culture and Ideas, Judaism and Religion

Haim Watzman It’s summer and the Jews are being perverse again. Instead of singing of sand and sea, next week we’ll spend a day fasting and lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem. The lamentation lyrics get pretty sickening—blood flows, people get tortured and burned alive, famished women cook and eat their own children. Why do we [...]

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