Posts Tagged: Tisha B’Av
Sequel Released to Temple Institute ‘Children’ Video That Caused Arab Outrage Last Year (VIDEO)
A film that inadvertently outraged the Arab world last year now has its sequel. The Children Are Ready, released by the Temple Institute, a not-for-profit...
How Tu B’Av Became Jewish Valentine’s Day
Everyone loves a happy ending. Jewish holiday ritual, though it has its share of melancholy moments, usually prefers to go out on a high...
Another False Messiah, Shabtai Zvi
The fast on the Ninth of Av, Tisha B'Av, commemorates both the Babylonian and the Roman destructions of Jerusalem and the First Temple, ...
1666: The Year Tisha B’av Became a Feast
The ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—or Tisha B'av, as it is known in Hebrew—is one of the Jewish year's two major...
Morsi Asks Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Investigate Temple Institute Ad
Controversy has spread from what some Egyptians see as an insult to newly elected President Mohamed Morsi who was featured in a viral advertisement for...
Profits and Prophets
There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great "vision," chazon,...
The Prophetic Voice
During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b'Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing...
