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For Tisha B’Av, A Feminist Reading of Lamentations
For those of us engaged in the lifelong passion and struggle of learning Torah with a feminist consciousness, writing it ...
Celebrate, More Holidays, Mourn, Southern & Jewish, Tisha B'Av
Tisha B’Av: Why Commemorate Tragedy?
Every person has a different way of dealing with grief; some cry, shout, pray, fast, or choose to celebrate and remember ...
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What Happens in Synagogue on Tisha B’av
There are some unique aspects to communal worship during Tisha B'Av.
Get Your Tisha B’Av Questions Answered
Got questions about Tisha B'Av? My Jewish Learning has answers.
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What We Need This Tisha B’Av: Respectful Disagreement
The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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What Tisha B’Av Can Learn From Ramadan
I did not fast during Ramadan. But I did somehow experience a little bit of the meaning of the Muslim ...
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Tisha B’Av: Transforming Victimhood, Accessing Our Most Powerful Selves
The great challenge is learning how to honor the past while being able to create a future based on fresh ...
Ve’al Kol Yoshvei Tevel – Including our world in Tisha B’Av
I normally begin my blog posts with a greeting, but it is forbidden to greet others on Tisha B’Av, so ...
Ask the Expert: Double Torah Readings
Why are two Torah portions read together on certain weeks?
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Shabbat Hazon & Shabbat Nahamu
The Sabbaths before and after Tisha B'Av provide a message of comfort and consolation.