fast day

Example Sentences

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It’s a slow moment in the middle of a fast day, at the start of a whirlwind week.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2021

They were mostly religious Jews, some with children in tow, who toured the site under heavy police guard on the Tisha B'Av fast day marking the razing of the temples.

From Reuters • Jul. 18, 2021

They can make up a missed fast day later, and it’s completely legitimate, he said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2021

Adams’ 1798 fast day proclamation was a conventional expression of New England political culture.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2017

"He himself is as long as Shivoh oser be-Tamuz, and he had to have a misfortune just on the fast day."

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich