Dozens of writers and poets were set to gather Tuesday to read the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), written in 586 BCE for the destruction of Jerusalem. Writers Lihi Lapid, Yehudit Rotem, Michal Shalev, ...

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Christopher J. H. Wright explains what one of the Bible’s most neglected books teaches about our cries of grief. We live in a world with untold amounts of pain from war, famine, and oppression. But ...