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On Tisha B’Av, influencer Hillel Fuld predicted that “A very, VERY large-scale attack on Jews is about to happen.” Long Island Shliach Rabbi Anchelle Perl responds. Full Story

Article by Rabbi Yossi Eliav, Chabad of Clinton Hill & Pratt Institute: 31 Years after Gimmel Tamuz and the connection to Tisha Ba’v.
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Applied Chassidus with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: How Does Tisha B’Av Capture the Paradox of a Jew? What Is the Healthy Way of Grieving Over Loss While Not Being Defined by It? Why Was Moshiach Born in the Darkest Moments of This Saddest Day of the Year? Video

A large crowd gathered on Tisha B’Av to daven Mincha at the Main Shul of 770 Eastern Parkway. Photos, Video

Watch: Silvia Fishbaum shares her story of escaping communist Czechoslovakia and how her personal experience helps her educate the world about Judaism. Video

The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed an earthquake shook New York City and northern New Jersey Saturday night at 10:18 PM.
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On Motzei Shabbos, thousands of men, women and children rushed to the kotel Hamaravi to recite Eicha and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh. Photographer Dovber Hechtman presents a gallery from Tish B’Av night at the Kotel in Jerusalem.
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Rabbi Yoel Gold and Rabbi Zalman Duchman of Colel Chabad discuss, could the Menorah really be hidden beneath the Vatican, as some suggest? And what does the Rebbe’s teaching about its true shape tell us about our mission in this generation? Video

Since the days of the Churban, a distant Jewish community has managed to preserve our holy heritage, generation after generation. Today, some 15,000 of our brothers and sisters live isolated in a remote land, holding the flame of Judaism in their region. The survival of that flame depends on you. Today, on Tisha’a Ba’av, let’s be there for our brethren. Full Story

Sights and scenes from preparations on Friday for Shabbos Parshas Devarim in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Photos