Tisha B’av will be commemorated with a worship service opposite the Soviet Embassy Sunday afternoon. The traditional Jewish day of fasting and mourning on the anniversary of the destruction of the ancient temple in 586 BCE coincides this year with the “Night of the Murdered Poets.” On Aug. 13, 1952,Jewish writers, poets and intellectuals in Moscow were executed on Stalin’s orders.
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