On Tisha B’Av, the IDF remembers the deep losses of Jewish history, from the destruction of the Temples to the pain of exile. This day of mourning is also one of resilience. As 50 hostages remain in ...

The fast day is a moment to consider Jewish power as well as Jewish powerlessness, writes a rabbi and author based in Israel. In his historical account of the Roman siege of Jerusalem, Josephus ...

Each summer, for three weeks, many Jews around the world engage in an ancient and communal act of mourning — culminating in a full fast on the 9th of Av, or Tisha b’Av. This day marks the destruction ...

A protest group called “Hot Mess” hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse on July 8, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) In recent weeks, ...

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 ...

“I’m fasting on Tisha B’Av for the first time this year,” a makeup artist told me last week in the TV studio. She isn’t alone. Many people fasted this year for the first time and there is no need to ...

Tisha B’Av is not a holiday I grew up with, and not one that makes much sense to me. I have mixed feelings about mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples in ancient Jerusalem, and no ...

There’s something new and profound happening this year while Christians support Israel as the Jewish world prepares to observe Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Biblical month of Av; a day that ...

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 ...

The buzz in Israel is that if Iran and Hezbollah are to launch a major attack, as they are vowing to do, it will start next Tuesday. As Jews have said for centuries, “Beware of Tisha B’Av.” The ninth ...