Jack Nash, a hedge fund pioneer and important Jewish philanthropist, passed away yesterday at the age of 79. Mr. Nash ...

Judaism has communal fasts that are not on the yearly calendar and numerous occasions when individuals may choose to fast.

Saving Judaism.

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

This fast commemorates the beginning of the end of the First Temple.

Tensions exist between national observance and private remembrance on Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day.

From religious idea to secular ideology.

Spiritual preparation for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur can make the holidays that much more meaningful.

Yizkor is part of an ongoing conversation with the dead, but what we don't realize is that we constantly converse with the dead in daily life.

The kabbalistic false messiah gained a mass following in the 17th century — until he converted to Islam.