Tisha B’Av is the day when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. Twice. The entire day is a sort of ...

Rabbi Reuven Hammer sees much present relevance to what Jeremiah had to say about the destruction of the first Temple ...

For those of us engaged in the lifelong passion and struggle of learning Torah with a feminist consciousness, writing it ...

There are some unique aspects to communal worship during Tisha B'Av.

Every person has a different way of dealing with grief; some cry, shout, pray, fast, or choose to celebrate and remember ...

The practices associated with this holiday are closer to the experience of being a refugee than to being a mourner.

Got questions about Tisha B'Av? My Jewish Learning has answers.

I did not fast during Ramadan. But I did somehow experience a little bit of the meaning of the Muslim ...

The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Growing up, I didn’t really know what Tisha B’av (It was pronounced Tish Above) was. I did get the sense ...