Yasher koach to all of you who participated in tonight's kickoff kumzitz Mishmar, and in particular to Yaffa Cohen who shared some of her reflections of what it was like to life in the face of terror last year in Israel. While we discussed 9/11 bit at mishmar, will be having a short program tomorrow, and might learn about a different aspect next week at Parsha Club, for those of you looking to find some meaning in it or just read up some, here are some interesting articles:
For some reflections and hashkafa, see this translation of a lecture by Rav Lichtenstein and this essay by Rabbi Basil Herring.
Here is an interview with Rabbi Michael Broyde, who spearheaded the efforts of the RCA Beth Din of America (full disclosure - I do some work for them, but didn't at the time) to avoid aguna problems for the many women whose husbands were presumed to have died in the Towers, but left no physical evidence or witnesses to confirm it. He and others who worked on it (Rabbi Yona Reiss, Rabbi Shlomo Weissman) have spoken and written in greater detail about it, but this interview gives you a taste of the incredible work they did and the novel methods used (within the established rules of halacha) to try to free as many of these women as they could.
Finally, here's an incredible article in the NYT from November 6, 2001 about Stern College students doing Shemira (watching over a dead body, reciting Tehillim) in 4 hour shifts over Shabbos for the bodily remains found at Ground Zero - read it.
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