I have a lot of issues with Israel, which right now are so inflamed and painful that I'm not able to talk about it wisely. I'm sorry about that, and maybe at some point we can have a conversation about it -- I'm just not in that place right now, I've been talking about it too much and it's making me so angry and sad that I need to take a step back. So I'm going to focus on the part of your post that I can relate to -- the stuff about liturgy and observance -- instead of the part about Israel.
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At my shul there were a grand total of six of us there, including me and the on-sabbatical rabbi. *wry grin* Granted, I live in a small town where we don't always get a minyan on Shabbat -- we'll have 150 people for the Days of Awe and otherwise we're usually a pretty small community -- so that didn't surprise me.
We did a standard weekday evening service, along with a reading of Lamentations. From what I've learned, that's a pretty standard erev Tisha b'Av observance. But we read Lamentations in English, not Hebrew (a more traditional
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At my shul there were a grand total of six of us there, including me and the on-sabbatical rabbi. *wry grin* Granted, I live in a small town where we don't always get a minyan on Shabbat -- we'll have 150 people for the Days of Awe and otherwise we're usually a pretty small community -- so that didn't surprise me.
We did a standard weekday evening service, along with a reading of Lamentations. From what I've learned, that's a pretty standard erev Tisha b'Av observance. But we read Lamentations in English, not Hebrew (a more traditional ( ... )
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