The first and central kinah said on Tisha B’Av is Megillat Eicha. The Gemara (Baba Batra 14a) refers to Megillat Eicha as the book of Lamentations, a Biblical book which allows us to do something ...

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Arutz Sheva wishes a hearty mazel tov to the Pinner family on the birth of a daughter this week. The Book of Eichah is the agonised cry of the prophet Jeremiah – the prophet who for decades had warned ...

Lamentations – Faith in a Turbulent World, by Dr. Yael Ziegler, remedies our overall reluctance to better understand Lamentations and conveys the book’s complex concepts and ideas clearly. The Book of ...

“The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation” by David R. Slavitt (Johns Hopkins University Press. $15.95). David R. Slavitt’s new translation of Eicha (Lamentations) demonstrates his ...

Next week, The Book of Lamentations (Eicha – which in English means “How can it have happened?”) will be read on Tisha B’Av, the annual day of mourning. Having written a new commentary on this book, I ...

Dozens of writers and poets were set to gather Tuesday to read the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), written in 586 BCE for the destruction of Jerusalem. Writers Lihi Lapid, Yehudit Rotem, Michal Shalev, ...