Tisha B’Av

Fasting For A Tolerant and Pluralistic Israel

#BlackLivesMatter has generated a wave of rebuke from the American Jewish establishment ever since it published its online Platform on ...

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

We are currently in the midst of what is known as The Three Weeks, and more specifically, we are in ...

Three friends are having a hard time. One laments being lonely unpartnered. Another tends a spouse with a tough prognosis. ...

Tisha B’Av (the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av) begins at sunset on Saturday, August 13, and continues ...

On September 10, 1813, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led the U.S. Navy to victory in the pivotal Battle of Lake Erie, which ...

Yesterday, around the world, we Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a day of grieving the historical destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, ...

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

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

“’…But, mother, I won’t be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham to make ...

We have learned from the Ancient Chinese Tao that there is a spot of Yang in the Yin and a ...

Tonight is Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day. Last night I was discussing remembrance with my ninth graders at our ...