Inspired by Ancient Practice, Rabbi Leads Interfaith Inauguration Day Fast
Jews fast on Yom Kippur, the annual day of atonement — but not only then. The tradition includes age-old and modern instances of fasts called to plead for rain, and one still on the calendar that mourns the assassination of a righteous government official about 2,500 years ago. Rabbi Burt Visotzky of the Jewish Theological…