Hi,
Tuesday July 19th is the fast of the 17th day of the month of Tammuz, and it begins a three-week national Jewish mourning period.
On the 17th of Tammuz one neither eats nor drinks, but - unlike the fasts of Tishah b'Av and Yom Kippur - one may wear leather shoes and wash normally.
(Code of Jewish Law Orach Chaim 550:2)
For more on the fast, click here; for more on the Three Weeks of mourning, click here.
Be well,
Mordechai
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