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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Tammuz is the fourth of the 12 months of the Jewish calendar. The month of Tammuz begins the “season” of the summer. The three months of this season are Tammuz, Av and Elul. The 17th day of Tammuz –a ...

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