A serious act of vandalism occurred on the night of Tisha B'Av at a yeshiva in Modi'in Illit, when unidentified individuals broke into the Ateret Yisrael Yeshiva boarding school and caused extensive ...

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Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, is undoubtedly the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It is a big secret of Jewish history that every major tragic event that ever happened to the Jewish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, is the most solemn day on the Jewish calendar—a time when millennia of tragedy converge into collective mourning and spiritual reflection. On this ...

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 ...

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 ...