What’s the 17th of Tammuz?
Everything you ever wanted to know about today’s holiday
| 7:00 AM Jul 9, 2009
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
If we Jews, never a well-liked bunch, were to mark each and every injustice that had befallen our people over time, we would spend most of our days commemorating catastrophes.
Conveniently, then, there’s the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a catchall day during which, according to tradition, some of the most gruesome chapters in Jewish ...
