The Jewish High Holidays – the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement – constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaf...

Striking in its appeal to the senses, the Song of Songs – the Bible's only book of love poems – is remarkable for its lack of sexual stereotyping and its expression of mutuality in relationships between men and women. Marcia Falk's rich and lyrical t...