The Nine Days are a time for facing hard topics head-on, and Rabbi Wiener dives with the biggest issue of American galus: what can we do about the thousands of assimilated, unaffiliated Jews within our midst? But there’s no hand-wringing in this lecture. Just as Tisha B’Av has the potential to become a yom tov, so do we Jews have tremendous potential to reach out to others and improve the lot of our nation as a whole.