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: July 15-16 (fast ends 9:05 p.m.) “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will (be transformed into) joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore, ...

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 is not about mourning, although there is much to mourn, but about becoming refugees. Tisha b’Av is not primarily about the end of sacrifices or the Temple — Chaza”l, the rabbis, figured out ...

Connecting with a holiday mourning lost Temples can be a challenge, but Tisha b’Av has special resonance this year, JTA’s Edmon Rodman writes. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — After weeks of missiles falling on ...

(RNS) Tisha B’Av, many rabbis say, can be a hard holiday to sell, with its commemoration of the most depressing events of Jewish history. But many of those same rabbis are trying to revive interest in ...

My first significant role as a Jewish educator in Tisha B’Av was as a counselor at an Orthodox all-girls camp. Resolved to offer my girls a transformative Tisha B’Av experience, I signed up to help ...

Tisha B’Av, which begins July 17 and ends the following evening, is a day of mourning and fasting. This week’s clergy discuss the historic and contemporary significance of what is known as the saddest ...

This coming Saturday evening August 10th begins the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’ Av (literally the 9th of the Jewish month of Av). Since the time of Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, ...

This year’s Tisha B’Av will be different from past years. Our mourning usually begins slowly with the Three Weeks and culminates with Tisha B’Av. This year, it began with full intensity ten months ago ...

There are days when the entire Jewish people fast because of the calamities that occurred to them then, in order to arouse their hearts and initiate them in the paths of repentance (teshuva). This ...