Any Jew who recalls 1973 knows exactly where they were, and the events that unfolded, on October 6 of that year. Yom Kippur had begun at sundown in the U.S.; when American Jews came to synagogue the ...
In the fall of 2023, I spent Yom Kippur in a synagogue, as I often do. I am not, on balance, observant, but for 25 hours I abstained from food and water. I thought about where I’d fallen short in the ...