Tisha B'Av

Over 1,000 days have passed since October 7, mourning feels 'harder than before' - opinion

Judaism asks us to sit shiva for seven days. Friends fill the house. Meals appear at the door. We are commanded not to grieve alone. But no tradition tells us what happens after the thousandth day.

 LIOR BEN YAAKOV with his wife, Revital, and their children on a family trip to Vienna a year before the war. After his army service, Lior had worked as a security guard for the Viennese Jewish community for a year and a half, dreaming of taking his kids there one day. ‘We’re lucky we managed to do
THEODOR HERZL, the solution appeared straightforward. Pictured: Theodor Herzl’s portrait on the 100-lira note (preceding the shekel), 1965

The sky is no longer silent: Antisemitism persists, but Jews are no longer defenseless - opinion

GRAPES GROW in the Tali Vineyard in Moshav Lachish.

Parashat Ki Tavo: The basket of first fruits

 "Jeremiah seated in the ruins of Jerusalem," Eduard Bendemann, 1837.

Leading with libel: Tisha B'Av and the global attack on Israel - opinion


Give baseless love a chance

To this day, the state’s religious establishment continues to exert control over its citizens’ most intimate moments.

Thousands of visitors gather at the entrance to Temple Mount in attempt to pressure the police in to lifting the prohibition on Tisha Be'Av

Standing with AMIA on the Fast of Av

The destruction of the Temple brought with it exile not only from our land and centralized place of worship, but from one another. We have done little to rectify this situation.

MEMBERS OF THE Argentinean Jewish community in Buenos Aires hold up pictures of the victims of the AMIA Jewish center bombing, during a ceremony in 2015 to mark the 21th anniversary of the 1994 attack

Thousands visit Western Wall, march through Jerusalem - watch

According to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, some 150,000 people visited the Western Wall between Friday night and sundown on Sunday.

Tisha Be'Av March 2019

Temple Mount - What the rabbis say

Rabbi Goren told Moshe Dayan: "This, God forbid, could lead to the destruction of the Third Temple, for the key to our sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza is the Temple Mount."

Jewish visitors in Temple Mount

Right-wing politicians call on PM to reverse Temple Mount ban on Jews

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Jewish visitation to Temple Mount is forbidden, ban should be in force year round.

Muslim worshippers on Temple Mount as police barred Jewish entrance on Tisha Be'av

Christian delegation to commemorate Tisha B’Av with Jews in Israel

Bob O’Dell: ‘It is the center of the storm and will eventually be the center of great joy’.

The ruins of the Second Temple that sit next to a part of the Western Wall

Tisha Be'Av: Rebuilding Jerusalem

Tisha Be'av at the Western Wall, 2019.

7 tragedies that befell the Jewish people on Tisha Be’Av

The Jerusalem Post looked at some of the most significant events in Jewish history that fell on the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av, a day of mourning.

ewish worshipper prays next to a pillar that Israeli archeaologists say formed part of the Second Temple, next to the Western Wall on Tisha Be'Av.

Police to decide on whether to let Jews on Temple Mount Sunday

The police said they will determine whether to allow Jews on the Mount Sunday after determining if the situation is calm and risk of violence and confrontation is low.

Palestinians pray on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City May 10, 2019.

Senior Rabbis rule: It's forbidden to go up to the Temple Mount

The rabbis felt it was necessary to issue their rulings in advance of the fast of Tisha Be'av this coming Sunday when some Jews have the custom to attempt an ascent to the Temple Mount.

JEWS WILL have to keep on looking at the Temple Mount from a distance.