If 5 Iyyar falls on Friday or Shabbat, the celebrations are held on Thursday, so as to avoid a desecration of Shabbat Lag ba-Omer. |
He also wanted it to be saved from from destruction or desecration in future wars. |
They say marking and documenting the sites is a concern because of a long history of grave robbing and desecration. |
Human productivity and excellence, if achieved by way of human desecration and abuse, can only result in eventual catastrophe. |
Worries that such a new building would be a desecration of a war memorial are nonsense, Mr Roberts insists. |
Flowers laid by relatives at the plot were scattered around the memorial during Sunday night's desecration of the graves. |