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Magical Thinking: Superstitions and Other Persistent Notions

This Tishah B'Av, Act as if There Was No God

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Magical Thinking: Superstitions and Other Persistent Notions jemerman August 3, 2022

Arts and Culture

Art. Ruth Schreiber's bronze and glass sculpture, Against the Evil Eye

Whether it is a lucky bracelet or a hamsa keychain amulet, superstitions believed to bring good fortune or ward off the bad are almost universal. They are the inspirations for a provocative new art exhibition: Magical Thinking: Superstitions and Other Persistent Notions.

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This Tishah B'Av, Act as if There Was No God jemerman August 2, 2022

Death and Mourning

Tishah B'Av is a day of mourning, commemorating the destruction of the first and second Temples. In recent years, it's also a day to mourn other tragedies that have darkened Jewish history - the Romans putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, mass murders of Jewish communities during the Crusades, expulsions from England, France, and Spain in the Middle Ages, and the Holocaust.