Asarah B’Tevet was the original cause—the first event that, had a domino effect, setting many other tragic events in motion. (See selected Halakhot for this year's fast, that falls on a Friday, at end)
'Hessed Haim and Emet' recruited 730 volunteers who undertook to say Kaddish for the victims and fallen soldiers every day.
The role of the prophets is to look beyond the present.
One of the four fasts mourning the Temple's destruction, today marks the day the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem began.
The rabbis subsumed several tragic events that occurred in Tevet and memorialized them on the date the siege of Jerusalem began.
Today is the 10th of Tevet, when Israel's Chief Rabbinate declared that Kaddish is said for Holocaust victims whose yahrzeit is unknown.
The fast mourning the siege of Jerusalem in Temple times is also the day kaddish is said for Holocaust victims whose yahrzeit is unknown.
Too many schools teach the Holocaust as just another tragedy, educational leader in Holocaust studies warns.
Fast one of four commemorating the destruction of the Temples; will end between 4:59 and 5:02 pm.
