(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish)
Knowing the historical background of the churban help us mourn its destruction. Tisha B’Av is the culmination, of course, of two national tragedies: the loss of the first Beis HaMikdash as well as the Second.
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The following is via NBC New York:
A Brooklyn resident who allegedly sprayed a Hasidic man with an unknown substance and made anti-Semitic remarks has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, the NYPD said.
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Just after the end of the fast of Tisha B’av in Israel, it was announced that emergency medical services form Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah responded to 224 emergencies over the course of the day that were caused by the fast.
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A man was tragically killed after he was struck by a vehicle following a violent crash, Sunday afternoon.
It happened just before 12:30 at the intersection of Avenue L and Coney Island Avenue, when two cars collided.

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Ambulance workers themselves needed ambulances after two of their medical vehicles crashed in the Bronx.
Fire department officials say four emergency workers were injured and needed medical attention Saturday afternoon when one of the ambulances plowed into the other at an intersection in the Mott Haven neighborhood.

It was a horrifying experience, but thankfully, the homeowner was not injured.
The man seen in the attached video broke into a home in the area of East 23rd Street and Avenue J at around 2:30AM Shabbos morning.
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In the intensifying manhunt for the killer of IDF Soldier / Hesder Yeshiva student Dvir Sorek, Israeli Security Forces impounded a vehicle in a Palestinian village on Friday, and took the owner into custody.
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Authorities say a 56-year-old Florida man took his golf cart on a wild ride through a Walmart store, terrorizing shoppers and ignoring deputies’ orders to stop before crashing into a cash register.
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The man accused of carrying out last weekend’s deadly mass shooting at Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explained that he had been targeting Mexicans.
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