TISHA B'AV PRAYER SERVICE AT UN'S ISAIAH WALL TO FOCUS ON ISRAEL'S SECURITY,
JEWS IN DANGER WORLDWIDE

The day after Tisha B'Av ten years ago, the 21 Jewish
communities of Gush Katif were expelled in a failed effort to achieve peace
with their Palestinian neighbors in Gaza. One year ago, thousands of rockets
were launched and dozens of terror tunnels were dug from Gaza into Israel in
a bloody war.

As Congress intensely debates the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran
continues to threaten Israel with annihilation. Here in the US, we wonder if
our president shares our existential fears for our Jewish homeland. And in
France and across Europe terror attacks on Jews and overt anti-semitism
disguised as boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) rear their ugly
heads.

There's so much to pray for this Tisha B'Av. Join the 38th
annual prayer service for Israel and Jews in danger worldwide at the
dramatic Isaiah Peace Wall, opposite the United Nations this Sunday, July
26th, 2 pm, at First Avenue & 43rd Street, Manhattan.

Rabbi Avi Weiss, who was in Gush Katif during the expulsion,
will address us by phone from Israel. Helen Freedman, director of Americans
for a Safe Israel, also present during the expulsion, will share her intense
recollections of that day and of followup visits to the expellees over the
past decade. Barbara Ribakov, director of the North American Conference on
Ethiopian Jews, will discuss the recent challenges facing our
Ethiopian-Israel brothers and sisters.

The prayer service is a traditional mincha, complete with
reading from a Torah scroll. Participants are encouraged to bring their
siddur (prayerbook) and tallis and tefilin as needed.

Information: tishahbav@aol.com, or (212) 663-5784. Organized
by Amcha-Coalition for Jewish Concerns, along with AFSI and SSSJ.