Judith Weiss, who blogs at Kesher Talk, has coordinated the Temple Mount Blogburst. A number of interesting blog posts have linked to discuss various aspects of Tisha B'Av. In Judith's words:
Tisha B'Av - which begins [this] evening - commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnetzar (which led to the founding of the influential Jewish community of Babylonia), and again in 70 CE, by the Romans. It also serves as a catch-all day of mourning for other major Jewish historical calamities (such as the massacres of the Crusades), but its central text - Jeremiah's Eicha, or Lamentations - is an unflinching description of the horrors inflicted upon Jerusalem by Nebuchadnetzar's seige and massacre.
My post on Memory and History is linked under Temple Mount blogburst: Jihadism and reality; there is some eye opening commentary there as well, so it is well worth your time.
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