Posts Tagged: Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av and the Nature of Evil
The period of mourning for the destruction of our two Jerusalem temples does not seem to fit with the idea that Judaism is underpinned by...
Mourning the Temple
The Temple has been the most significant building in Jewish history. The Fast of Av commemorates two occasions when it, Jerusalem and the Jewish state...
Israel is the Jewish Melting Pot
JNS.org - The joyous, momentous welcoming ceremony for the new immigrants at Ben Gurion Airport was only the beginning of my aliyah day. We stayed...
As Jews Mourn Destruction of Temples, Palestinian Authority Denies They Ever Existed
As Jews around the world mourned the destruction of the ancient Jewish temples on Sunday with the observance of Tisha B'Av, Palestinian Minister of Religious...
Netanyahu Views 2,000-Year-Old Book of Lamentations Scroll on Tisha B’Av
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu viewed a 2,000-year-old scroll of the Book of Lamentations (Megillat Eichah), the text that is read each year on...
Tisha B’Av is a Reminder: Don’t Repeat Mistakes of the Past
“Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana was not referring to Israel, but he might have been. When all...
Hundreds of Jews Ascend Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av, Confronted by Muslim Protesters
JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Jews ascended the Temple Mount on Tuesday morning to mark Tisha B'Av, the Jewish national day of mourning and fasting for...
Sneakers on Tisha B’Av: When Spirit and Letter Collide
JNS.org - The wider world of traditional Judaism is moving in fits and starts toward a renegotiation of the terms of halakhic observance. At...
A Tisha B’Av Message: Jews Must Fight to Prevent Their Destruction
I first wrote this essay about Tisha B'Av in 2011 and have been revising it each year ever since. This year's version takes...
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Reopens to Jews Post-Ramadan, But Freedom of Worship Remains Elusive at Holy Site
Jews were free to ascend the Temple Mount on Sunday, in Jerusalem, after a month-long ban expired overnight as Eid al-Fitr parties across the Muslim...
Dissonant Temple Mount Status in Focus as Religious, Political Forces Collide (VIDEO)
Before Jerusalem becomes the stage for the US-led peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority next Wednesday, an Israeli Knesset committee will meet...
Tisha B’Av in the 21st Century
JNS.org - It is a testament to the amazing variability of Jewish synagogue life in America that the summertime fast of Tisha B'Av is for some...
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Closed to Jews After Arab Protests
JTA - The Jerusalem Police closed the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors a day after Arabs protested such visits. The closure on Tuesday coincided with...
Israel PM Netanyahu Stresses ‘Unity’ Ahead of 9th of Av; Meteorologist Braces for Traditional Choppy Seas
The "Three Weeks" of traditional Jewish mourning to commemorate the destruction of the historic First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, from 17th Tammuz to 9th...
