In rabbinic literature, the Land was of primary importance--even as the Diaspora grew.

Remembering Jerusalem permeates Jewish belief, thought, and practice in profound and powerful ways.

A word and its opposite may be one and the same.

These stories are passed on as teachings about how to die.

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

From religious idea to secular ideology.

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

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

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

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.