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Yom Kippur

A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

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Larry Gellman

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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Spreading Positive Social Epidemics

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Twitter, Yom Kippur, Social Change, Sustainable Food, Health Care, Civility, Living News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

We need an epidemic of civility, we need to redouble our efforts to teach our children respect, honor, kindness and goodness.

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Always Hungry

Liz Neumark | Posted 11.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Yom Kippur, Always Hungry, Vendy Awards New York, Katchkie Farm, Local Food, Organic Food, Queens, Street Vendors, Fasting, Food, Cleansing, Foodies, New York Food, New York News
Liz Neumark

From the moment I was expected to contemplate a Yom Kippur fast as a teenager, I became ravenous. I clearly remember the object of my uncontrollable hunger -- Smokey the Bear cookies.

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Barack Obama, Yom Kippur, Chief Plenty Coups, and Wild Horses

Deanne Stillman | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Yom Kippur, Senate, Obama, Wild Horses, Politics News
Deanne Stillman

Alas, the wild horse has endured yet one more violent season. This summer, the dwindling herds that still roam public lands were again besieged with massive takings -- and there are more scheduled for the fall.

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Kaparot: Yom Kippur In Crown Heights (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Chicken, Yom Kippur, Jews, Kaparot, Judaism, Brooklyn, Yom Kippur Brooklyn, Slidepoll, Kaparot Crown Heights, Chicken Slaughter, Pictures, New York News

Photographer Matt Rodigheri has been documenting the Orthodox Jewish community in Crown Heights for a year. Kaparot, or "Atonement" is a custom per...

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Yom Kippur Puts Damper On Last Day Of Campaigning

nytimes.com | Michael Barbaro | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York

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Because of a quirk in the calendar, Monday is both the last day of campaigning before the Democratic runoff election and the holiest day on the year f...

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'Send A Prayer' iPhone App Beams Prayers To Rabbis (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted 11.27.2009 | Technology

Read More: Iphone, Yom Kippur, Religion, Chabad.org, iPhone Applications, Prayer iPhone App, Send a Prayer, Religious iPhone Apps, Technology News

**See photos and video below** A new iPhone application called "Send a Prayer" allows users to enter personal prayers into their mobile phones, then ...

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The Cowardice, the Vanity, the Sin of Boycotting Israel

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yom Kippur, Israel, Leonard Cohen, Bradley Burston, Boycott, World News
Bradley Burston

There is something in Ajami's nuance that helps explain why the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has proven a wholesale failure.

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The Tone of Our Atonement: A Meditation for Yom Kippur

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Jewish Holidays, Yom Kippur, U.N. General Assembly, Humanistic-Leadership, Sin, Atonement, Common Ground, Jewish, Living News
Carol Smaldino

I want to dare to pose the notion of making Yom Kippur a time for softer and longer reflections, about how to make things better, truer, safer for our insides and freer from inner terrors.

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I Will Dominate You, Yom Kippur

Dan Abramson | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, Yom-Kippur-Atonement, Kiera-Knightley, High Holy Days, Jewish High Holidays, Jewish, Comedy News
Dan Abramson

You call yourself the day of "Atonement." More like day of "shitty Keira Knightley period piece." Burn.

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I Want to Know What Happens Next

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Future, Life, Death, Living News
Marty Kaplan

There are aged people, and sick people, who hang on to life because they are consumed by the dramas playing out in the world. They demand another day to see how things turn out. They want to know the ending.

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Glenn Beck: The Grinch Who Stole Yom Kippur

Aaron Keyak | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Fox News, Yom Kippur, National Jewish Democratic Council, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Yom Kippur, Media News
Aaron Keyak

It's not insignificant that Beck chose the holiest day of the Jewish calendar to launch his "day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic."

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Have the Jews Left the Synagogue?

Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Yom Kippur, Religion, Jews, Synagogue, Upper East Side, Judaism, Holydays, Rosh Hashanah, Tikkun, High Holy Days, New York News
Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz

You can't practice Judaism with your grandfather's heart but must approach these days with a new, fresh, different and vibrant style that speaks to someone who lives and struggles in the 21st Century.

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Yom Kippur Game Rescheduled For Yankees, Red Sox

AP | Frederic J. Frommer | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to switch the starting time of a Yankees-Red Sox game to avoid conflicting with Yom Kipp...

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To Find God...Just Skip Lunch

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Ramadan, Yom Kippur, Religion, Christianity, Fasting, Lent, Judaism, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

The association between self-denial and god is common in most religions. What is so curious about these supposed episodes of "self-denial" is how little is being denied in the effort to get closer to god.

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Compassionate Release Redux

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

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Rabbi Jennifer Krause

Take a moment to read these names. Read them all or read a few. If you're reading this and knew one of them, tell us who he was, tell us what she hoped to become.

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Defying Despair: Why I Believe

Sharon Brous | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Religious Texts, Yom Kippur, Humility, Religulous, Judaism, The Holocaust, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Concentration Camps, Israel, Faith, Spirituality, Bill Maher, Ikar, Torah, The Inner Life, Living News
Sharon Brous

Faith is not about hatred and exclusion -- those are perversions of the deepest religious truths. The religious life is not about pretending to know with certainty, it is about living with deep humility.

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Yom Kippur Looked Pretty Green, Carless In Tel Aviv

Treehugger | Jesse Fox | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Bike Culture, Yom Kippur, Car-Free, Bikes, Israel, Green Driving, Green Living, Green News

That's right - Yom Kippur. A somber day of introspection in most of Israel, in mellow Tel Aviv the Day of Atonement is the closest thing to a day with...

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The Sound of Silence

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Culture, Religion, Living, Jews, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Chinese Food, Shofar, Rabbi, Living News
Earl Pomerantz

The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.

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A Yom Kippur Letter to Joe Lieberman's Rabbis: Joe Is McCain's Best Jewish Friend. Please Ask Him To Beg McCain to Stop Encouraging Hate

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Lieberman, Anti-Semitism, John McCain, Daniel Cohen, Barry Freundel, Sarah Palin, Yom Kippur, McCain Lieberman, Lieberman McCain, Lieberman Yom Kippur, 2008 Election, Politics News
Jesse Kornbluth

Sen. Lieberman is, if you will, John McCain's rabbi. So I thought I would write to you and ask you, as Sen. Lieberman's rabbis, to talk to him about the hatred that the McCain-Palin campaign is encouraging.

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A Religious View of the Fiscal Crisis

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Yom Kippur, Religion, Sukkot, Wall Street, Judaism, Living News
Rabbi David Wolpe

The same people who bewail the stock market now pledge their troth to T-bills. The deeper question is whether we understand that nothing we do is guaranteed in this life.

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Laugh Your Guts Out -- Irony on Yom Kippur and Election Day

Haim Watzman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yom Kippur, Israel, Obama, Elections 2008, Barack Obama, Judaism, Politics News
Haim Watzman

I have a feeling that a lot of Jewish penitents and American voters are not using an essential tool that they need to make their choices. I mean irony.

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