Why Secular Israelis Still Fast on Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur empties Israel's highways and fills its synagogues, even among people who describe themselves as secular. Why does a country that mostly doesn't keep the rules keep this one? This episode digs into the research on religious transmission across four generations — what predicts whether faith gets passed down, why the parent-child relationship matters more than the parents' own practice, and what happens when observance is used as a tool of shame in difficult families. The data point to something surprising: the strength of the hand-off depends less on the doctrine and more on the…
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