Rest in Pieces – A Thought for Tisha B’Av

Khaled’s been our “fix-it” guy for a decade. When he was over recently, I came upon him in the living room as he was taking a break from his work. He was looking at a series of photographs on the wall, one of which is called “Rest in Pieces.” “What is this?” he asked. “It’s a Jewish cemetery in Argentina,” I told him. “See the Hebrew lettering on the tombstones?” “But why are the tombstones shattered?” “People broke them,” I explained. “But why would anyone do that?”...