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The horror in Gaza is a catastrophe for Jews — this Tisha B’av must be a reckoning

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Tisha B’Av marks the saddest day of the ...
The Sentinel

Faith in Focus: A historical look at Tisha B'Av

Jews will observe a fast day starting Saturday night; after the Sabbath ends Saturday, the holy day of Tisha B’Av begins. Tisha B’Av is a Day of Mourning to commemorate many terrible disasters that ...
The Jewish Exponent

Tisha B’Av is a Jewish History Lesson. Why Don’t More Jews Observe the Holiday?

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 ...
Time

Religion: Tisha b’Av

For the first time in history, Christian ministers participated last week in observing the solemn Jewish day of mourning, Tisha b’Av. Their action was expressive of the growing understanding among ...
Jewish United Fund

A return to the site of Tisha B’Av instills meaning

Boys play soccer in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City three days before Tisha B’Av in 2006. Photo credit: Hillel Kuttler. Tisha B'Av was always just another summer's day, off the radar, like ...
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‘The whole nation needs to feel their pain’: Hostages’ plight looms over Tisha B’Av fast

As the sun descended in the waning hours of the Tisha B’Av fast day on Sunday, thousands in Jerusalem streamed toward the Western Wall for what many say is the nicest part of the saddest day on the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Orthodox protesters disrupt Conservative Tisha B’Av prayer at Western Wall egalitarian section

The Orthodox men set up a mechitza, meant to divide between men and women, and shouted and sang as the worshippers read the book of Lamentations. (JTA) — A crowd of Orthodox men disrupted a ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

For the first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, new liturgy and traditions mourn a fresh tragedy

Congregations, rabbis, scholars and musicians are responding to Oct. 7 and the war in Gaza with liturgy and rituals that draw a connection between the traditional meaning of the Tisha B’Av fast day — ...
The Forward

Tisha B’Av is a holiday about grief. Can it still be meaningful after Oct. 7?

Ten years ago, on Aug. 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot by a local police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Months of protests ensued, with people across the country outraged by images of ...
Jewish Journal

Rabbi Uziel and the Holocaust: New Readings for Tisha b’Av

Tisha b’Av, which begins this year on the night of July 26, is our collective day of mourning, when we spend the day recounting the many tragedies that befell our people. We fast, pray and observe ...
The Forward

In first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, Jewish writers, musicians, and lay leaders compose new liturgy and traditions to mourn a fresh tragedy

(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 ...