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What really happened on Tisha B'Av?

What really happened on Tisha B'Av?

The historian Yosef ben Matityahu (Flavius Josephus) chronicled one of the most harrowing events in Jewish history: The Great Revolt, which ended with the destruction of the Second Temple. But Dr. Hanan Birnbaum, a scholar of Jerusalem’s history, cautions: “His account is biased. He had a clear, dual agenda.” So what really happened?