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Recovering the benefits of denial.

What trees can teach about relationships

An idealized Jerusalem arose out of the ashes of the Temple's destruction and the city's ruins.

Recent historical events have lead to new archetypes.

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

The importance of Israel for Jews who do not live there.

The Conservative movement's creation of this scroll is the latest attempt in contemporary Judaism to create a liturgy for Yom Hashoah.

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

Fast days are acknowledged in the synagogue liturgy.