Tisha B’Av A People Yearning Join us at the ACTJC for multiple learning opportunities over Shabbat Chazon and Tisha B’Av Shabbat Chazon 25th July - Services at 9:30am Sermon given by Rabbi Selwyn Franklin First President of ORA, Rabbi at Ohr Chadash “The Unique Experience of Judaism” Tisha B’Av Evening Fast begins at 5:15pm 25th July - Services at 6:30pm Reading of the Megillah Eicha Tisha B’Av Day – 26 July Shacharit 8:30am Kinnot (Poems of Lamentation) 9:30am Rabbi Shmuel Feldman 10:30am Triumph of Hope - Faith and The Horrors of the Holocaust Rabbi Selwyn Franklin 12:00pm Why did it happen? Trying to understand the Destruction Mincha with Tallis and Tefillin 1:00pm Rabbi Alon Meltzer 1:45pm Rav Soloveitchik: Yom Hashoah vs Tisha B’Av Shoah Movie: Playing For Time (1980) 2:45pm Maariv and Havdallah 5:30pm Fast Over 5:46pm Tishah B’Av is day of mourning for the destruction of both the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem along with the many calamities that have befallen our people. On this day we do not eat or drink, and we observe various customs of mourning.