Did I read correctly? I hadn’t read those awful words in a newspaper in many years. Maybe I just am not reading the right articles but… Yes, I am a product of a treacherous long forgotten era. I have ...
Tisha b’Av: July 15-16 (fast ends 9:05 p.m.) “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will (be transformed into) joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore, ...
This week a friend confessed to me his problem with fasting on Tisha B’av. My friend is Orthodox and Israeli — an alumnus of one of the elite hesder yeshivas — and he felt that it would be wrong for ...
(JTA) — When Israeli musician Yagel Haroush set out to write a mournful song about the destruction of Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, he described it as both a therapeutic exercise and an attempt to grapple ...
In 587 BCE, King Solomon’s Temple was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar II and the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Almost 600 years later, the Second Temple was demolished by the Roman Empire. Tisha B’Av, the ...
Without negative associations or oversimplifications to overcome, we can reimagine how we teach about the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. PALO ALTO, Calif. (JTA) — As a child, I always looked ...
When I was younger, I often struggled with understanding the purpose of the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av. Why, thousands of years later, do we still fast and mourn the destruction of Judaism’s two ...
Tonight begins the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’ Av (literally the 9th of the Jewish month of Av). Since the time of Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, through modern times, horrible things ...
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