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Yom Kippur

By the Numbers
12 Facts About the Yom Kippur War

While causing Israel many losses, the battle also highlights how “the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”
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Why the Break Fast?

The Freeman Files
Yom Kippur Without Guilt

How about someone who abandoned a religious lifestyle because she was abused by the authority figures of that system?
Voices
Zaidy’s Yom Kippur

It’s an old voice, but powerful and steady. It is my zaidy (grandfather) saying the mourner’s kaddish for his father, whose yahrtzeit is on Yom Kippur.
The Yom Kippur Drunk

The scandalized crowd was about to eject the man from the synagogue, when the Rebbe turned from the wall and said: "Let him be. For us, Yom Kippur is just beginning, but for him, it's already Simchat Torah."
Lifestyle
“Lekach” Honey Cake

That which emerges from your lips, you shall keep and do
— Deuteronomy 23:24
Print Magazine

To whom does a Jew pray?

Can He be described? Does He have a name?

No, there is no description with which to imagine Him, no name with which to grasp Him.

Even the pronoun “Him” implies too much to be true—as though He could be a third party, absent or present. Even the title “Infinite Light” misses the mark, as th...

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