Jewish Telegraphic Agency6mon
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
A holiday marking one societal rupture, Tisha B’Av spurs Jewish creativity amid another
(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 ...
Hopefully this will be the first and last 'real' Tisha B'Av after October 7
I am writing this immediately after Tisha B’Av. The saddest day in the Jewish calendar, a day when we commemorate every ...
The Times of Israel10d
It’s Beginning to Feel A Lot Like Tisha B’Av
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 ...
Jewish Press6d
Hostage Agam Berger Found Siddur in Hamas Captivity, Fasted on Tisha B’Av
(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 ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs26d
'Contemporary Humanistic Judaism': The contemporary movement of the Jewish world - review
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 ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs18y
The Jewish people's 9/11
Over 1,000 tons of missile fuel chemicals head for Iran ...