fasting

Finding meaning on Yom Kippur is nourishing in its own way

This summer, two things happened at once, making me think about fasting in a whole new way—and as Yom Kippur ...

#BlackLivesMatter has generated a wave of rebuke from the American Jewish establishment ever since it published its online Platform on ...

I did not fast during Ramadan. But I did somehow experience a little bit of the meaning of the Muslim ...

April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

“Are you going to fast on Yom Kippur?” “Are you going to try not to eat until chatzot, midday?” These ...

This Thursday (March 13) many Jews will fast from sunrise to sunset in commemoration of Esther’s fast before she approached ...

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...