Tag Archives: Major General Uzi Narkiss

jerusalem day: if I forget thee

The power of identity. But is it about bolting it down to the weight of tradition or about creating a whole new world? We could begin by asking, using the theoretical base of Jean Baudrillard, to question whether Jerusalem even … Continue reading

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send it sky high?

His comments were about on the same level as Mohammed Morsi’s “jews descended from pigs and apes,” and it has been a chronic and pervasive piece of populist Jewish rhetoric to preach the need for blowing up the temple Mount … Continue reading

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brick by brick: waiting for the shovel ready

Anxious. Impatient. To build or not to build. To mourn or to rejoice. To cry and laugh simultaneously. It is said that  conquerors of ancient Israel could only capture the Temple in a physical sense; the Temple’s spiritual essence living … Continue reading

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lets build something together: but not quite yet

…One of the most famous such sources is a recounting in the Talmud of a story that occurred after the destruction, when several of the most prominent sages of the time, including Rabbi Akiva, went up to the Temple Mount. … Continue reading

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