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"I don't think most people understand just how absolutely fanatically crazy a number of us Jews are about Jerusalem. Indeed there are a fair number of American Jews who don't understand why this stupid, highly symbolic issue is so fucking powerful for so many of the rest of us. [...]

"On the subject of Jerusalem, I am about as rational as the dwarves of Durin's race about Moria. (It helps, I suppose, that Tolkien once said in an interview that he vaguely based the dwarves on the Jews in the same way he vaguely based the Rohirrim on the Vikings.) And yeah, maybe it will turn out that this time, the Balrog wins. Too bad."

-- Harold Feld, 2017-12-08 (N.b.: much useful, pertinent, historical information in the comments! If you have an immediate gut reaction to this, you might want to peek at the debate there.)

[To my friends observing Asara B'Tevet, may you have an easy fast.]

Today is:
Gregorian: 2017 December 28 -- fourth day of Christmas
Julian: 2017 December 15
Hebrew: 5778 Teveth 10 -- minor fast commemorating the seige of Jerusalem in 588 BCE
Islamic: 1439 Rabi`ath-Thani 09
Persian: 1396 Dey 07
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.5.1.11
Indian: 1939 Pausa 07
Coptic: 1734 Koiak 19

[I'm still confused as to why Chabad gives a date about 160 years later than Wikipedia & other sites I looked at.]

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Psst. Your link to this doesn't show any comments or any way to find the original FB post.

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I was thinking the same thing, especially since I am one of the few people on the planet not on FB.

While it is not the same text, Harold's DW post on the topic certainly has the same underlying sentiment. And some of the useful historical background.

Edited Date: 2017-12-29 12:11 am (UTC)

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Argh, doggone FB ... Gary, thanks for the DW link that I had somehow missed. I'm pretty sure that once upon a time, public posts on FB were world-visible but apparently now you have to be logged in even if the post is public. (I just tried it and got exactly the post+comments I expected, but I'm logged in.) Recently, they also did something that makes it impossible to select text on the screen to copy (and causes print-to-PDF to fail on my PowerBook), so to copy/paste I resort to using the "view source" window. Facebook seems intent on breaking basic elements of how the web was designed to work. (Also interesting -- in another browser I just tried forcing the desktop site instead of the mobile version (which i get because my browser "is too old", and I get a "page not available".) I guess FB is the wrong place to put anything interesting that anyone might want to be able to get back to. :-( But alas, people keep using it.

Anyhow, thanks for the heads-up, both of you. I'm not sure how to fix this other than copying everything to another site and republishing it, but that's a very different act from just quoting a bit. (If anybody else comes along and sees this and knows how to create reliable links to FB content, let me know, eh?)

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