A land of milk and honey ... and dread

Reflections for Tisha B'av, today's day of mourning

Photo by the author; stone (which occupies most of the width of the photo) is not the one discussed below

Almost as soon as we’d buried my father about six years ago, the brochures started to arrive in the mail. Different companies offering their services for making the tombstone, which in Israel, is a (physically) much larger deal than in many American …