Tisha B’Av here and there

Tisha B'Av here and there

In San Francisco's Lincoln Park Sunday, Rabbi Alan Lew (top photo, left) and his wife, Cheryl Lew, listen as Rabbi H. David Teitelbaum speaks to a group of around 30, gathered to recall the destruction of Jerusalem and other sorrowful events in Jewish life on Tisha B'Av. Other participants include Rabbis Jacob Traub and David Wirtschafter and Cantor Henry Greenberg. Sponsors are the Board of Rabbis of Northern California and the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council. Meanwhile, in photo at left, thousands of Israelis pray on the eve of Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, prior to Sunday's outbreak of violence at the holy site.