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Tisha B’Av
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This is in observance and not an event on campus.
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Office of Diversity and Inclusion, diversity@unl.edu
A fast in commemoration of the destruction of two very holy and sacred temples of Judaism destroyed by the Babylonians (in 586 B.C.E) and Romans (in 70 E.C). At the of Tisha B’Av, after very select passages from the Torah are read and understood, netilat yadayim, or the washing of the hands, is performed.