Posts Tagged: Tisha B’Av
Jewish Infighting Is Having Real and Negative Consequences in Today’s World
We are in the middle of the nine days preceding Tisha B’Av, a precarious time for Jews. One important warning during the nine days is...
Should Jewish Prayer at the Temple Mount Cause a Religious War?
Under Israeli law, Jews have the right to pray on the Temple Mount the same way that Muslims have the right to pray in the...
This Tisha B’Av, Our Savior Won’t Be a Politician or Political Party; It Will Be Ourselves
When the coronavirus was spreading throughout the world and stopped our civilization, many were floating a phrase that seemed to resonate: “we're living in Biblical...
Victims or Visionaries?
JNS.org - I was looking through my files and came across the notes of a sermon I made just before Israel’s disengagement from Gaza back...
Tisha B’Av 2022: Let’s End the Hatred of Jew Vs. Jew
Before we can truly address the threat of antisemitism, we -- as Jews -- need to confront the hatred we harbor for one another. Every time...
Gantz: ‘Western Wall Long Enough to Accommodate All Parts of Israeli Society’
i24 News - Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz addressed the controversy over the egalitarian prayer section of Jerusalem's Western Wall in a meeting with Blue...
Tisha B’Av: Clashes Erupt Between Palestinians, Police on Temple Mount
i24 News - Dozens of Muslim Palestinians flocked to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday at the site of the al-Aqsa Mosque, in...
A Year With Too Much to Mourn
JNS.org - It may have been discouraging, but the dismal turnout for a national rally that was supposed to bring Jews together against antisemitism was...
Are Haredi Hard-Line Policies Undermining the State of Israel?
One of the most startling narratives of the Talmud concerns Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, the rabbinic leader of Jerusalem’s Jews during the devastating Roman siege...
Tisha B’Av: Accepting Jews Where They Are
During the three weeks leading up to Tisha B’Av, an opportunity presents itself to us to engage in introspection and healing. Tisha B’Av solemnly remembers...
How Jewish Educators and Innovators Must Look to Future
JNS.org - Many discussions taking place right now about a “new normal” for Jewish education and engagement, assumes that the organizational infrastructure of the North...
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Says Coronavirus Patients Not Permitted to Fast on Tisha B’Av
Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, David Lau, issued guidelines on Monday that stated coronavirus patients and those with possible symptoms of the disease were prohibited from...
Seattle Police Investigate Racist Fliers on Synagogues, Timed to Tisha B’Av
JNS.org - Police from Seattle’s bias crimes division are investigating after racist fliers were found outside at least two synagogues in the city on Tisha...
Pompeo: Khamenei ‘Sick’ to Call for Violence Against Israel on Tisha B’Av
JNS.org - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday, after Khamenei exhorted Muslim pilgrims to “take an active...
