41. The Tenth of Tevet is the only minor fast day that can coincide with Friday in the current Jewish calendar. 42. Married couples also abstain from sexual activity on fast days so that they may devote themselves fulsomely to prayer ( ). 43. Sephardic Jews do not recite Avinu Malkeinu on fast days ( except those that fall in the days of Penitence ). 44. In some countries there is a tradition of meatless borscht for fast days , and even a variation that uses fried fish. 45. The Jewish community of Frankfurt set the date of the fire ( 24 Tevet ) as a memorial and fast day . 46. Ingenious structures and materials are used to protect the passengers and hunters build small sleek versions to permit fast day trips. 47. Of course, Orthodox Jews take the fast day seriously, but at Kutsher's it was " A Night in the Caribbean ." 48. In addition, most Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year are fast days and many monasteries also observe Monday as a fast day. 49. As on all minor fast days , fasting from dawn to dusk is required, but other laws of mourning are not normally observed. 50. Travellers going on journeys of more than 50 miles may eat in daytime, but must make up the fast day later on.
