By Karen Bergreen and Cynthia Kaplan

It’s the High Holidays for Jews around the world, and that includes those on the Upper West Side. Huzzah! It has always confused us that Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a week after Rosh Hashanah, the turn of the Jewish New Year. Meaning, we’ve only had one week to misbehave. Anyhoo, we’ve always found Yom Kippur, whether marked in a synagogue, at home, not celebrated, or ignored if you believe something else entirely, to be worthy of consideration. The task on Yom Kippur is not to just acknowledge our wrongdoings, but to apologize to anyone we may have harmed over the past year. Face to face. Personal accountability can only be a good thing in today’s rough world. And so, if we have in any way harmed you with our non-expert advice, we do since

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