A seaside sunset with prayer and music highlight Stephen Wise Temple’s annual “Shabbat by the Shore” at Crescent Bay Park in Santa Monica. Bring a blanket, beach ball, Frisbee and picnic basket and ...

The fast of Tisha B’Av, which falls on July 20 this year, is one of those odd calendar events that has no name of its own. The Hebrew words simply mean the ninth day of the month of Av. It marks the ...

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 ...

(JTA) — For many observant Jews, the mourning over the destruction of the two ancient Temples in Jerusalem on the fast of Tisha B’Av actually begins three weeks earlier with the onset of a period of ...

Beginning at sunset on Friday, Pueblo's Jewish community will join their brethren from around the world in observing Tisha B'Av. The holiday is observed. It is not celebrated. There is nothing to ...

(New York Jewish Week) — The thermometer crept close to 100 degrees Thursday afternoon as a crowd of people who mostly had not eaten all day donned woolen prayer shawls outside the Israeli Consulate ...

We Jews have a holiday dedicated exclusively to our collective grief: the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, Tisha B’Av. But more than a holiday, it is an idea. It is a container for sorrow, a ...

Jewish tradition teaches that we are commanded to write a Torah in our lifetime, but not a kinah, or dirge. For ages, our prophets and rabbis have done this for us, filtering and distancing, putting ...

It is increasingly difficult to look at a news site, paper or podcast and not be accosted with either anti-Semitic physical attacks or anti-Israel accusations about Gaza and the broader Middle East.

New liturgies and practices are emerging for the holiday, the first that Orthodox Jews will be able to observe via livestream. (JTA) — For many observant Jews, the mourning over the destruction of the ...