"Fasting during operational activity is prohibited; it is a life-threatening matter," says the Israeli Military Rabbinate.
Could Iran be making the same mistake that Haman did 2500 years ago?
The Jewish national period of mourning.
What is Tisha b'Av? What are we mourning?
The year 2005 was the first time I ever truly felt the pain of Tishabaav.
Hamas previously threatened to attack if Jews went up on Tisha B'Av.
Tisha B'Av Eichah reading at the Cotton Gate in Old City of Jerusalem.
First Temple remains discovered in the Givati parking lot.
Don’t just ask when the fast ends… ask when the exile ends.
Join us for our walk through the both destructions of Jerusalem in the City of David as we journey back in time to the fateful encounters with both the Babylonians and the Romans.
On Av 10, 5765 the Ariel Sharon government uprooted thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip.
Why was the Judean freedom movement vilified in rabbinic literature and in the writings of Josephus?
If you want to understand what steps you can take towards greater healing and reconciliation, if you want to understand the woman who is portrayed as the model of transformative action, watch this video and let it enter your heart.
The police also arrested several Muslims who reacted violently to the Jews’ visits at the holy site.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the heads of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, the Israeli Health Ministry will announce the new directives by Wednesday.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A policeman in a nearby car saw the attack, exited his car and fired in the air, thus extracting the motorist from a potential lynching.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Condemnation poured in from across the Arab and Islamic world after violence erupted at the sensitive site during overlapping Muslim, Jewish holidays.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Muslim leaders over the weekend called on Jerusalem’s Muslims to ensure that Jews could not visit the site during their day of national mourning.
Tragedies that history has taught us how to avoid.
By Sharon Katz
Crypto-Jews, who saw in their own circumstances a reflection of the events of Tisha B’Av.
Why do we still mourn the destruction of Temples?
By JNi.Media
In case the Temple is rebuilt, consider this [Tisha B’Av] document null and void.
By JNi.Media
It appears that in order to revoke an ancient law such as the fast of Tamuz 17, there really has to be a major consensus among all of us that the time of joy and gladness is here again.
Talks spanning the topics of Jerusalem, Jordan, and Norway.
Israel's history and Temple is being denied by an artificial Palestinian people.
Israel capitulates to every little pressure.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit Hebron under tight protection by the IDF
By JNi.Media
At the hearing, the Police representative claimed that the detainees had been arrested because they had violated the public order during their visit to the Temple Mount by ripping their clothes.
The police didn't want to simply open the gates to the masses of Jews waiting to go up.
Yishai Fleisher's amazing speech at the Walk Around the Walls on Tisha B'Av.
A free, printable paper model of the Beit HaMikdash that kids can assemble is being made available by Tzivos Hashem Traditional Crafts Workshops.
By JNi.Media
Other than that one Jordanian Waqf agent, the Temple Mount was almost empty of Muslims Sunday.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Every year, thousands of Jews join in the annual Tisha B'Av eve walk.
Circumcision, is it all it's cut out to be?
"For 2000 years we cried, 50 years we waited, now it's time to build."
Rabbi Brovender discusses some of the customs of mourning that are in place during the Three Weeks.
On this special Tisha B'Av edition, Tamar reads from the Book of Lamentations to give you a better understanding why Jews fast and why they feel so much pain today.
By JNi.Media
The state of mind of "I can't do it" is the cause of defeat. That's the root of the destruction, said march organizer Yehudit Katsover.
By JNi.Media
Of course, no Jew has even mentioned Al Aqsa mosque, because Jews, especially religious Jews, prefer to attend their services in a synagogue, thank you very much.
By Guest Author
What are the main changes when Tisha B'Av falls on Shabbat or Sunday?
Is the Temple Mount truly in ‘our hands’? Josh Hasten interviews Temple Mount activist MK Rabbi Yehuda Glick on this weeks Israel Uncensored.
I have not gone up although I yearn to walk, pray and worship on the holiest place on Earth for the Jewish people and it is emotionally depressing to see what is happening up there.
Rabbi Richman talks about the Temple and Chocolate Cake.
Two Israeli policemen that were injured by Islamic terrorists on the Temple Mount on Sunday.
Rectification for the Sin of the Spies – "Sovereignty”
The following is a live feed / compilation of video feeds from Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount today, on Tisha b'Av. In the video you can see how the Jews get "greeted" by the Arabs on the Temple Mount, and the treatment they also get by the police, who are not happy that Jews […]
Arabs disrupted Jewish prayers in Hebron on the night of Tisha B'Av
In three weeks, the Fast of the 9th of Av will be on the 10th of Av.
Women in Green organized a reading of the Book of Eichah (Lamentations) on the eve of the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'av, in front of the American Consulate in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2014. An estimated 1500 people took part in the reading and later marched around the walls of the Old City. Tisha […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“Today, on Tisha B'Av, the day upon which the Holy Temple was destroyed, we came together with hundreds of Jews to the Temple Mount to fulfill the commandment of being in the holy place, to pray there for the welfare of the IDF soldiers who are defending all of Israel..."
his Tisha B’Av, and this Tu B’Av, remember: Hashem will protect us if we unite and rally around Him
Israel's Chief Rabbis give ruling exempting IDF soldiers from fasting on Tisha B'Av.
One must act as if everything depends on us and pray as if everything depends on God.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah discuss Tisha B'Av in Jerusalem and respond to Yishai's most recent article on Ynet.
Every year, one of the greatest challenges going into Tisha B'Av is the statement of the Gemara Yerusalmi “A generation in which the Temple is not built is considered to be one in which it was destroyed"
The Babylonians and Romans destroyed the Holy Temples long ago. Since 1967, the site of the ruins returned to Jews, but Muslims have de facto rule. Police barred Jewish entry on Tisha B’Av and now face a lawsuit
Can we hear the agony in his words? Can we step into his shoes and experience his torment?
On Tisha B'Av evening, the Women in Green led their traditional march with a packed crowd (despite the late hour) around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Who says Netanyahu does not want peace with Abbas? He picked up the phone to wish him greetings on Ramadan. Why didn’t Kerry think of that? Maybe Arabs will call tonight and wish Bibi a good fast.”
Are ready for the 9th of Av? The children are....
They march into the synagogue on Tisha B’Av and convince the adults to leave behind their prayer books and come with them.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about Tisha B'Av in Jerusalem along with the recent visit of American presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's trip to Jerusalem.