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 ...

(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 ...

They are the words that Jews will chant as they gather in fasting and mourning on the first Tisha B’Av (August 12-13) since October 7. Tisha B’Av is the receptacle of Jewish mourning for all ...

I am writing this immediately after Tisha B’Av. The saddest day in the Jewish calendar, a day when we commemorate every ...

For Jews, July in Wisconsin, in certain years, can also mean the advent of Tisha B’Av, the somber day commemorating the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem. A day of fasting, chanting the ...

That is what I remember about the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av — the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, which Jews observe in mid-summer. For me and my peers growing up, that meant Jewish ...

RELIGIOUS AND secular Jews gather on Tisha B’Av outside Independence Hall in Tel Aviv to hear the annual reading of Eicha, the Book of Lamentations, last year. (photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG ...

(Israel Hayom via JNS) Fresh testimony emerged on Friday about IDF soldier Agam Berger‘s 482-day ordeal in Hamas captivity. Yaffa Deri, wife of Shas Party Chairman Aryeh Deri, and their daughter ...

In this way, Asara B’Tevet has the same status as Yom Kippur. They (as opposed to even Tisha B’Av) are the only two fasts we observe even on Friday or Shabbat. Why do we treat Asara B’Tevet ...