Tisha B’Av (Fast)

Entering Tisha B’Av, a day of fasting and mourning the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, Jewish people the world over were greeted with a positive message calling to increase in acts of goodness and kindness.

Every year, Jews around the world don non-leather shoes, and make their way to synagogues and Chabad centers for evening services, followed by the mournful reading of Eichah (the book of Lamentations), the slim volume in which the prophet Jeremiah mourns ...

When Shabbat ends this week, there will be no sweet-smelling spices or Kiddush wine to bid farewell to the sacred day. Instead, Jews around the world will don non-leather shoes, and make their way to synagogues and Chabad centers for evening services, fol...

When Shabbat ends this week, there will be no sweet-smelling spices or Kiddush wine to bid farewell to the sacred day. Instead, Jews around the world will don non-leather shoes, and make their way to synagogues and Chabad centers for evening services, fol...

The summertime travels of “Roving Rabbis”—young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students and newly minted rabbis who visit isolated Jews and small Jewish communities all over the globe—are filled with exciting, hectic days and nights in which they share the j...

As Jewish communities around the world prepare for Tisha B’Av—a day of fasting and mourning for the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 69 C.E.—Jewish people everywhere were greeted with positive messages calling for renewed hope ...