{"id":62294,"date":"2021-07-16T15:55:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=62294"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T21:55:37","slug":"on-tisha-bav-mourning-incomparable-loss-working-on-increased-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/on-tisha-bav-mourning-incomparable-loss-working-on-increased-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tisha B\u2019Av, mourning incomparable loss, working on increased unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DEBORAH FINEBLUM<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">&nbsp;(<em>JNS.org<\/em>)<\/span> \u2013 Why is Tisha B\u2019Av the saddest day of the Jewish year?<\/p>\n<p>Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the first one, built by King Solomon, was demolished by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the second, a gift of King Herod, by the Romans in 70 C.E.), but a host of other tragic events also befell the Jewish people on that date.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62295\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62295\" class=\"wp-image-62295 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-1536x1182.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-2048x1576.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/231;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62295\" class=\"wp-image-62295 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-1536x1182.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Temple_stones-2048x1576.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-62295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornice work from the Second Temple thrown down by Roman soldiers. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fast-forward to 9 Av 133 C.E., when the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans ended in bloody defeat and the Temple Mount was plowed over one year later\u2014to the day. In 1290, England expelled its Jews on this date and Spain followed suit in 1492; Germany attacked Russia on ninth of Av in 1914, marking the beginning of World War I, and on the same date in 1941, Heinrich Himmler\u2019s SS was given approval from the Nazi Party to execute the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d destined to take the lives of nearly a third of the world\u2019s Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, these painful events explain the mourning traditions of Tisha B\u2019Av (which this year begins at nightfall on Saturday, July 17, and extends until sundown on Sunday evening). Chief among them: fasting; sitting on the floor or low chairs until midday and eschewing marital relations; listening to music; bathing; swimming; wearing leather shoes; and taking pleasure trips. In addition, after the sun sets and the holiday begins, Jews the world over (usually in synagogue) read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/eicha-faith-in-a-whirlwind\/\"><em>Eichah<\/em><\/a>, the book of Lamentations, bewailing the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Jewish grief is not limited to the ancient past; last year\u2019s calendar was littered with tragedy. All too fresh are the grisly deaths of 45 worshippers, many of them children, at the annual Lag B\u2019Omer celebration in Meron, Israel, in addition to last month\u2019s collapse of an apartment building in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Surfside, Fla., north of Miami, killing nearly 200 people inside; as well as the destruction from the 4,000-plus missiles launched into Israel by Hamas in Gaza that turned into a violent 11-day conflict in May.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62296\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62296\" class=\"wp-image-62296 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000.jpg 724w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62296\" class=\"wp-image-62296 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/211305FFF2000.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-62296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damage to homes in the Israeli city of Petach Tikvah, hit by rockets fired by Hamas in Gaza into Israel, May 13, 2021. Photo by Flash90<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not to mention the countless thousands of Jews lost in COVID\u2019s merciless revolving door; a number estimated to be well over the national averages because Jewish communities in both North America and Israel tend to be situated in dense population centers, communities that suffered the highest per-capita infection rates.<\/p>\n<p>In one 24-hour period in January, the Jewish people also lost three prominent leaders: Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski, a scholar and psychiatrist best known for his 60 books and chain of addiction treatment centers; Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, scion of the Brisk dynasty and head of its&nbsp;<em>yeshivah<\/em>; and Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, longtime head of the&nbsp;<em>Kaminetz<\/em>&nbsp;<em>yeshivah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Such losses remind Rabbi David Stav, founder and chairman of the Tzohar Rabbinic Organization, a religious Zionist group dedicated to connecting religious and secular Jews, of one of the&nbsp;<em>kinot\u2014<\/em>poems read on Tisha B\u2019Av\u2014that tells of the 10 holy sages murdered by the Romans 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-62297 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-62297 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks-in-Library-880x495-1.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>\u201cIt says that the loss of righteous people is equal to the loss of the two Temples,\u201d he explains. This past year, the Jewish world lost so many of its leaders, he points out, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/news\/article_cdo\/aid\/4834810\/jewish\/Rabbi-Adin-Even-Israel-Steinsaltz-83-Renowned-Scholar-Author-and-Devoted-Chassid.htm\">Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/a-man-who-exemplified-what-it-meant-to-be-a-jewish-leader\/\">Rabbi Jonathan Sacks<\/a>, \u201ctwo of the most powerful speakers for the Jewish people. We lost more of our best and brightest than any other year in the last decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Add to the list the passing of longtime Yeshiva University president and Jewish educator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/longtime-yeshiva-university-president-and-educator-norman-lamm-sought-to-unify-in-divisive-reality\/\">Norman Lamm<\/a>, who often spoke about reconnecting a divided community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>We think it brought us together\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But as much as these losses brought the Jewish people together in shared grief\u2014and a groundswell of caring, including untold numbers of volunteers delivering groceries, medication and other necessities to housebound seniors or those most susceptible to getting sick\u2014COVID itself also emerged as a divisive issue between Jews. Many were critical of their more traditional cousins who live in concentrated communities and whose attendance at synagogues and&nbsp;<em>yeshivahs\u2014<\/em>and funerals, too\u2014often pushed the limits of lockdowns and regulations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62298\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62298\" class=\"wp-image-62298 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1.jpg 724w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62298\" class=\"wp-image-62298 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/F210502TN12-1.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-62298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israelis light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede at Mount Meron during the Lag B\u2019Omer celebrations, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, May 2, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg\/Flash90<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn Tisha B\u2019Av, when we recall that we lost the Second Temple because of causeless hatred between Jews,\u201d says Rabbi Binny Freedman,&nbsp;<em>rosh yeshivah<\/em> of Orayta in Jerusalem, \u201cwe have to think of the year-and-a-half when we were isolated and separated physically, when we were masked and socially distant. We were afraid of catching the illness from other people, but there was also something unhealthy about the fact that we were forced into being so distant from each other.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another divisive force was social media, the rabbi adds. \u201cWe think it brought us together, but consider the rancor on Facebook and the fact that when everyone wishes each other happy birthday online, we don\u2019t even pick up the phone anymore for a personal greeting anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>Part of our crying has to be for divisiveness\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least equally alienating has been the year\u2019s political split between liberal and conservative Jews, and those on the left and right in Israel. Exacerbated by the fractious presidential race in the United States, the divide split families and friends alike, often expressed in volleys of less than civil and highly public social-media posts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62299\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62299\" class=\"wp-image-62299 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62299\" class=\"wp-image-62299 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rabbi_David_Stav.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-62299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi David Stav visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. Credit: Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Indeed, the biggest loss of the year, says Stav, is that of \u201ckindness and respect between Jews.\u201d Though he insists that airing some disagreement of opinion is healthy, \u201cwhen we begin calling each other names, which characterizes this last year far too much, as we mourn the loss of the temples, it\u2019s not just 2,000 years ago but the tragedy that still exists among us, and it\u2019s caused by the same internal hatred that caused it then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of our crying has to be for the divisiveness which caused many friendships and even families to rip open this past year,\u201d says Rabbi Shlomo Katz, spiritual leader of the Shirat David community in Efrat, recording artist and author of&nbsp;<em>The Soul of Jerusalem<\/em>, among other titles. \u201cOur tradition teaches us that the only way to heal it is to have the self-control to minimize our ego and remember that relationships should never be based on what a person believes politically,\u201d he adds. \u201cOnly when we deeply understand that can we begin to repair the rift, build trust and have the conversation that we really want to have with this person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or, as Stav puts it, \u201cWe can begin to heal the anger and hurt between Jews by extending a hand to shake, really listening to the other\u2019s opinions and trying to understand with an open mind, basically to give them respect\u2014no matter how they voted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018W<\/strong><strong>e need to rebuild that oneness\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But unity (<em>achdut&nbsp;<\/em>in Hebrew,) may be getting a helping hand from an unlikely source: the very people who hate us. Indeed, this year Tisha B\u2019Av arrives at a time when the Jewish people are again beset by a common enemy: anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>In the fight against perhaps the world\u2019s oldest scourge, one potent weapon is Jewish unity, insists Freedman. \u201cWhen Jews came together in the Beit Hamikdash, the holy Temple, there were no Reform or Conservative or Orthodox\u2014only the overwhelming feeling of God\u2019s presence, an awe so powerful that we could put aside our petty differences,\u201d he says. \u201cNow, Tisha B\u2019Av is coming to remind us that even without the Temple, we need to rebuild that oneness. We need to find a way to draw closer to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is also no better time than Tisha B\u2019Av to count blessings to counterbalance the grief, including the existence of the State of Israel, something most Jews could only dream of a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith each passing year, the commemoration of Tisha B\u2019Av shifts away a little farther away from mourning the Great Destructions to the realization that the many generations of mourners before us generated the recovery of Zion,\u201d says Ruth Wisse, retired Harvard University professor and author of&nbsp;<em>Jews and Power<\/em>. \u201cTheirs was no mere bewailing the past, but testimony to how precious the resumption of Jewish religious and political autonomy would someday be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mourning includes responsibility for all that they foretold,\u201d adds Wisse, now distinguished senior fellow at the New York-based think-tank the Tikvah Fund. \u201cAnd all that has come to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"On%20Tisha%20B%E2%80%99Av%2C%20mourning%20incomparable%20loss%2C%20working%20on%20increased%20unity\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,350],"tags":[3534,8790,8795,8788,8075,8801],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62300,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294\/revisions\/62300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}