Most non-Jews would say Jerusalem was lost twice because the Babylonians and Romans destroyed it. Both empires and their armies were very big and very strong. No one else could defeat them at that ...

Anyone touched by the Holocaust or the events of Oct. 7 has had their hearts broken apart. Tisha b'Av is but another ...

Doha: Hamas claimed that it handed its response to the Israeli ceasefire proposal to mediators, The Jerusalem Post reported ...

Once a year on Tisha B’Av, the 9th day on the Jewish month of Av, we get together to read the Book of Lamentations and mourn the Temple’s destruction while praying that we very soon ...

Saturday night, August 2nd is the Jewish fast day, “9th of Av.” The Fast of Av commemorates the ancient destructions of the ...

Pablo Bronstein has created a series of drawings for Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the former home of Baron Ferdinand de ...

How internal division and foreign dependence threaten Jewish sovereignty, then and now.The post From Judea to Jerusalem: The ancient cost of outsourcing our future appeared first on JNS.org.

Spiritually, “between the straits” remains ever applicable. For anyone experiencing deep distress, mourning or despair, it ...

Back in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, this special offering was brought every morning and afternoon. Unlike other ...

And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be ...

We do not respond to catastrophe with questions of why and we do not think of calamities gone by in order to be sad. We respond as best as we can.

Today we mark the fast for 17 of Tammuz, mourning the breaching of Jerusalem's walls and other tragic events. Watch a ...