Former hostage Bar Kupershtein revealed that he and five other hostages fasted while in captivity and urged anyone struggling with the fast to draw support from him and the other captives.

In memory of the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem, thousands of Jews ascended the Temple Mount on Tisha b'Av and prayed for the building of the third.

Herzog visited the IDF’s first ultra-Orthodox brigade to read from the Book of Lamentations, a collection within the Bible of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E.

It's a mitzvah to write and recite your own kinnot if possible.

Clearly the Holy Temple was special place. A place where time, nature, and even life stood still.

On Tisha B’av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, we mourn the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem that were destroyed.

As we pray at the Western Wall and gaze up at the Temple Mount, we cannot help but wonder why there is no Holy Temple today. Does it have anything to do with the slanderous report of the spies in the times of Moses?