While fasting on Yom Kippur addresses spiritual cleansing, scads of weight loss books are popularizing the diet fad of intermittent fasting.

Despite noteworthy progress, women who want to be leaders today face significant hurdles.

Yom Kippur is about our relationship to God, although God remains a mystery to us. Purim is a day of masquerades and parties.

When I was a child and recited on the High Holy Days the long, repeating list of alphabetical transgressions, I did not even know what most of them…

It is just after dawn on October 2, 2014—two days before the start of Yom Kippur—and Tehran’s notoriously bad traffic is already clogging the roads,