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Yom Kippur: A time for feasting as well as fasting

  • Written by Ted Merwin, Part-Time Associate Professor of Religion, Dickinson College
Yom Kippur break fast.danbruell, CC BY-NC-SA

It was the bag of Fritos that gave me away. As a secular Jewish kid whose family did not belong to a synagogue, I did not think twice about riding my bike to the convenience store around the corner during the afternoon of Yom Kippur.

I knew that it was a solemn holiday when observant Jews do not eat or...

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