This Tuesday, July 19, is the Fast of Shiva Asar b-Tammuz (the Seventeenth Day of Tammuz), which will inaugurate the Three Weeks of mourning for... Read More

The Jewish calendar has a half-dozen or so "minor" fast days -- minor both in the sense of "less important in the grand scheme of... Read More

I think about fasting every Yom Kippur. Thinking is as far as I usually get. I grasp the concept of fasting and how it can... Read More

Not having grown up going to a Jewish summer camp, I'll admit to total ignorance of the summer season of the Jewish calendar until much... Read More