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I hope everyone has a meaningful (but easy) fast this Tisha B'Av.

We should be worthy of seeing (and participating) in the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash and of Jerusalem.

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In just a week's time it will be Tisha b'Av (9th of Av). There will be posts about that this week, but in the meantime, mark down on your calendars to join the traditional Walk around the Walls of the Old City.

Every year on Tisha B'Av, thousands of Jews gather and walk around the walls of the Old City, in a fitting tribute to its destruction, and hope for its complete rebuilding.

This year the evening starts (like always) with the reading of Eichah on Motzei Shabbat (August 9, 2008) at Kikar Safra at 9:30 pm followed by the walk.

Here is a video from Tisha B'Av last year:



The Walk around the Walls of the Old City of Jerusalem is a very emotional and inspiring experience. It is relevant way to appreciate this day.

You all remember the huff and puff that Rice made when Israel refused to allow seven Gaza students to leave on a Fulbright scholarships to the US?

She made a scene and demanded they be let go, and then personally got them their visas.

And so they got their exit visas from Israel and entry visas into the US.

But the US State Department decided to investigate their backgrounds a little deeper than the Rice cake did after they got some more information, and realized that Rice made a big mistake.

Three of the students were allowed to stay in the States, and four had their visas immediately revoked - including one who already landed in the US, who was unceremoniously put on a plane back.

Statements were made that perhaps they should have dug a little deeper in the first place to ensure who they were giving the scholarships and visa to.

Bat-El Gaterer of Kochav Yaakov, a settlement in Binyamin will be representing Israel in the Olympics this year in the Taekwondo category.

You see, we settlers do more more than just eliminate terrorists in Jerusalem.

Bring home the gold, girl.

Once again the Police have been caught in their trail of lies. From top cops with Mafia connections, top cops taking bribes, perjury on the witness stand, police violence, police leaks, and so on in never seems to end, and the stories only get more sordid.

Anyway, in the latest incident, it turns out that the cops purposely watched in hiding, as Arabs (in apparent collaboration with the police) violently attacked a group of settlers. The settlers then defended themselves, at which point the cops jumped out and arrested the settlers and let the Arabs go (who had also set up cameras in advance of their attack).

The cops don't even bother to dispute that that is what happened, those were their orders.

It really is time for a purge from the top to the bottom of this sludge barrel.

Here we go.

Hamas terrorists in Gaza take control from Fatah terrorists. Fatah terrorists in Gaza then try to kill Hamas terrorists. Hamas terrorists in Gaza then starts shooting Fatah terrorists. Fatah terrorists run to pre-67 Israel for sanctuary. Israel tries to turn over Fatah terrorists from Gaza to Fatah terrorists in Judea/Samaria. Fatah terrorists in Judea/Samaria refuse to accept Fatah terrorists from Gaza. Israel sends Fatah terrorists back to Gaza. Human rights group blame Israel for Human Rights Violations.

Got that?

You don't have to be completely paranoid like "Esser Agaroth" to know that the latest government plan to collect fingerprints and photos of all Israeli citizens, as is we were common criminals, is an incredible violation of our civil rights. It is another step to the Israeli government becoming the Big Brother it wants to be.

It isn't even amusing when Ehud Olmert talks about how it will prevent certain types of crimes, as clearly it wouldn't prevent the types of serious crimes he is involved in.

This is something that needs to be fought.

I remember 14 years ago, when Nadia Matar and Women in Green began/renewed what has become an important Tisha B’Av tradition.

The Oslo accords were in full steam. Nadia was becoming a clear leader in the fight for sanity in Israel (she obviously still hasn’t won, but she hasn’t given up).

She called her group Women in Green, as green represented life, and was the anti-thesis of the Women in Black group, a defeatist, and self-hating leftist movement started by Aliza Olmert, the wife of PM Ehud Olmert (and other radicals), that was beginning to promote their anti/post-Zionist philosophies that have since proven so dangerous and destructive to this country.

Women in Green announced that they were going to protest the attempts (through Oslo) to destroy Israel in front of the US consulate on Agron Street - by sitting there and reading Eichah, and then afterwards walking around the Old City of Jerusalem.

It was an exciting, inspiring and very appropriate idea.

And in reality it was even more exciting, inspiring, and appropriate.

Since that first Tisha b’Av 14 years ago, I’ve walked around the Walls of Jerusalem with them at least 6 or 8 times with them. And thousands (and I mean thousands of people do this walk every year)

This year again, Women in Green are Walking around the Walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.

This Erev Tisha b’Av, August 9, Saturday Night, Megilat Eichah will be read at Kikar Safra at 9:30pm and the walk will begin at 10:30.

For more information, go to the website.

Watch a video of last year’s march:




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OK, this is just so inappropriate. This morning I was at a brit mila of a friend (for his child).

I find it so inappropriate that people snap photos and take videos of the brit itself. We're talking zoom shots, close-ups, you know what I mean. And it's always the women that are the taking the photos.

One nearly nudged the Mohel today to set up that perfect frame.

Seriously, how inappropriate is that? What do you even plan to do with the video and the photos? Watch it? Show it to his girlfriends? Play it at the wedding?

Please. Turn the cameras off, or just take pictures of the family - that is just plain wrong.

Oh, and kids don't need front row seats either. The mohel had to also stop - in the middle - when the curious children got to close. Keep them on a leash. Thank God they didn't bump him, he was having enough trouble as it was.

Gee whiz.