The Jewish national period of mourning.
Normally choose a Haftara that corresponds to Parshat Hashavua, but not during the Three Weeks.
Rabbi Brovender discusses some of the customs of mourning that are in place during the Three Weeks.
They march into the synagogue on Tisha B’Av and convince the adults to leave behind their prayer books and come with them.
The USA was founded on the Fast Day of the 17th of Tammuz, July 4, 1776. On the same coincidental days in 1863, a rabbi’s sermon included a phrase that Lincoln later made famous.
With the Three Weeks and its social restrictions as they pertain to simchas behind us, heimishe Yidden everywhere are "dusting off" their party clothes, taking their jewelry out of the safe and getting ready to attend a multitude of weddings - with some people invited out on an almost daily basis.