Tisha Be'av: Another view of the fast day from the 20th century
Come with me to the end of World War II and what Tisha Be’av offered us then, as our souls were wracked in fasting, pierced with sorrow and then uplifted with a tiny glimmer of hope.
‘SKYSCRAPER EXPLODES into Flames as Midtown New York Rocks in Blast’ was the July 1945 headline. (photo credit: Matthew LeJune/Unsplash)ByDAVID GEFFEN