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Together We Stand By Elana Moskowitz | July 13, 2021 Six women offer their insights and personal experiences on encountering and navigating diversity within the frum community
It’s been nearly three months since Lag B’omer, when 45 people tragically died while celebrating Rabi Shimon bar Yochai’s yahrtzeit in Meron. Numb with shock and grief, Jewish communities across mourned both the personal and collective facets of the disaster. Of particular importance was honoring the 45 kedoshim as individuals, underscoring the singularity and distinctness of each person we lost. While encountering the kedoshim on a more intimate basis, countless people shared an observation: The victims of the Meron tragedy represent a nearly complete cross-section of the Jewish religious demographic: Chassidic, Litvish, Dati-Leumi, Modern Orthodox, Israeli, chutznik, Brisker, yeshivish. All are tragically accounted for. ....
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, “Antisemitism is on the rise”, shout Jewish activists, hoping for someone to pay attention. While Israelis perpetually acknowledge and prepare for the inevitability of the next war, many optimistic Jews abroad plead to those who rule over them for protection as citizens of their respective countries, equal under the law, and, supposedly, in the eyes of their neighbors. They echo the insistent sentiments of Persian Jewry, of Weimar Jewry. Of the Jews of Granada in the 1000s, of England in the 1100s, the Jews of Fez massacred in 1033, and throughout Morocco in the 1860s. Of the Jewish communities that maintained a presence in the cities of Hebron, of Safed, Jerusalem, Gaza, T ....
One feels the need to write something meaningful and comforting about the Meron tragedy, but the words won’t come. Once again we are confronted with the inadequacy of human speech to plumb the very depths of tragedy and despair. Faced with unutterable sadness and grief, we are struck dumb. When two sons of Aharon HaKohein lose their lives in the Mishkan, Aharon’s reaction is: “Vayidom Aharon Aharon was silent” (Vayikra 10:3). Silent, because mere words are insufficient. Better let silence fill the void than meaningless prattle or shopworn clichés. This is one reason that a mourner, during his shivah period, is not to engage in excessive conversation. ....
From Across the Oceans From Montreal and Manchester, Buenos Aires and Teaneck, each of these very different people had made their own way to the same destination
As the outpouring of grief across Israel and beyond has made clear, Meron 2021 will go down as a tragedy of the entire Jewish People 45 holy souls, Jews of all types, who died minutes after beseeching kera ro’a gezar dineinu. But of the many thousands drawn to the elevation of Rabi Shimon last week, and the hundreds who entered the horror that was the tunnel of death, one group stands apart. From different cities, countries, and continents, they’d waved goodbye as they boarded a plane to learn in yeshivah and grow in kollel, to spend time in Eretz Yisrael or go directly to Meron. From Montreal and Manchester, Buenos Aires and Teaneck, each of these very different people had made their own way to the same destination. ....