Masses arrive at holy site in Jerusalem to mark onset of fast commemorating destruction of two Temples

Every hamlet around Yafran bears mark of Jews, who arrived in country 2,300 years ago and, until their departure soon after Israel's creation in 1948, constituted half of city's population. 'All I know is that we used to live together and that there were no problems,' says local

For former Minister Yossi Sarid, Tisha B'Av is a day of demagogy; for Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, it's a memorial candle. Eight public figures discuss meaning of day of mourning in their eyes

Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism calls on Romanian Academy to change its dictionary definition of word 'heard by the Jews when they were put on the trains of death'