The minor fast on the 17th of Tammuz lasts just from sunrise to sunset. Only eating and drinking are prohibited. The 17th of Tammuz commemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans ...

Tuesday marks the fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, a day commemorating several tragedies in Jewish history and the start of a mourning period known as the Three Weeks when many Jews ...

The Jewish people marks today, Thursday, the fast of Tammuz, the date on which, according to the words of our sages, five of the most difficult events in the history of the Jewish people took place.

The Three Weeks of gradually-increasing mourning over the destruction of the Holy Temples and Israel's exile begin Tuesday, with the fast day of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz. This is the day ...

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“Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and men from Judah, and I inquired of them about the Jews who had survived, who remained of the captivity, and about Jerusalem… They said to me, ‘The remaining ...

The contradiction in that sentence is the crux of the next holiday – the 17th of Tammuz (Shivah Asar b’Tammuz)– which marks the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the Temple’s final destruction ...

A rabbi delivering a Shabbat sermon on the coincidental dates of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Fourth of July in 1863 used the phrase “four score and seven years ago” before Abraham Lincoln made ...

Based on this passage, it was once suggested to the renowned Rabbi Hillel of Paritch (c. 1795-1863) – one of the most revered Lubavitcher chassidim to have ever lived – that, when Moshiach comes, ...