Contrasting Historic Assemblies

In Jerusalem:

UPDATE 10/04: full-dress reenactment of the water libation . . . Levites dressed in special garb blew meter-long silver trumpets prepared for use in the Third Temple

Over 1,400 Jewish pilgrims visited the Temple Mount on Monday, the second intermediate day of the Sukkot holiday...

UPDATE 10/04: 3,876 visited Temple Mount

UPDATE 10/04: 50,000 Jewish worshippers attend Priestly Blessing ceremony at Western Wall

Israeli police arrested a Jewish man on his way to sacrifice a lamb on the Temple Mount on Sunday morning.

Ben-Gvir's chief of staff seen selling Lulavs, offering gun to bystander

Lulav

Close to 1,000 Levites from around the world converged on Jerusalem's southern wall near the Western Wall to partake in a momentous reenactment of the ancient Levitical choir of the Temple, 2,000 years after its destruction.

It's an occasion we may not have witnessed since the Temple's destruction.

Israeli minister reads Torah scroll in Saudi Arabia

Here in Riyadh we prayed with the windows open to Jerusalem

In Kyiv:

In a move described as ‘historic’ by the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign ministers convened in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday.

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The assembly of all EU foreign ministers at the same venue outside the EU’s borders is an unprecedented event. While the precise agenda remains undisclosed, the meeting’s occurrence alone indicates the urgency and significance of the discussions.

EU foreign ministers convened in Kyiv for their first ever meeting outside the bloc...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the meeting of all 27 EU foreign ministers...

It is the first time that we met in a candidate country.