Do you know someone Jewish? Then they were probably at synagogue yesterday. I was there with my husband. My parents and my sister were at another one. Almost all of my Jewish friends will have been in attendance at their synagogues. Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the solemnest day in the Jewish calendar and one of the holiest. Jews fast for 25 hours and they go to synagogue to repent for their sins of the past year in an attempt to do better in the new one. Even the Jews who don’t attend on the other 364 days of the year make a visit on this day.

While Yom Kippur certainly isn’t a fun day in the Jewish calendar, it still has its own special appeal. I have always found that the temporary rejection of our physical needs to focus instead on the spiritual, together as a community, to

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