Tisha b’Av
Tisha b’Av in Catalonia, and a torrent of emotion.
Brought back by summer camp.
A rabbi and historian explores how rabbis and Jewish liturgy will mark the destruction of October 7 now and in the future.
Trivializing Judaism’s greatest sorrows.
How many Jews had been dragged to the baptismal font in Tortosa, and how many had just given up the struggle and gone of their own accord?
Wax stains from fast days gone by.
Berl Katznelson’s defense of the Jewish calendar.
A tale of two sieges.
How many Jews had been dragged to this baptismal font and how many had just given up the struggle and gone of their own accord?
“We won! Am Yisrael ḥai!”
The theological and literary history of one of Europe’s first great outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence.
Anglo-Saxon males do not know how to cry—with the result that, on the odd occasion that they do, they may not know how to stop.
Sumerian poems, the midrash, and the Divine virtuoso of grieving.
On the Ninth of Av, Oholah and Oholibah speak.