TV station apologizes for using yellow ‘Jude’ star for Yom Kippur segment

“Please know we have reviewed our in-house policies and made changes to do everything we can to avoid such mistakes happening in the future.” In fact, more people will attend temple throughout the day on Yom Kippur than on any other Jewish holiday. This year, Silver’s son had to miss out on being in the middle school cross country team photo because picture day fell during Rosh Hashanah. Some liberal rabbis hold that strict fasting can be contrary to the Yom Kippur objective- which they say is preparation to start the coming year well.

The most famous – and admittedly peculiar – custom that has developed around Yom Kippur involves swinging a chicken over your head three times to absolve yourself of sin.

Of the 15 public school districts in Champaign County, Unit 4 is the only one that takes its one-day fall break on the same day as the Jewish holiday.

Because the organization doesn’t charge for services and activities they provide and also doesn’t receive money from the university, a majority of their funding comes from the Jewish community. But if we follow the story in the Torah through to its end, it offers something richer: it offers a story of mending.

Here are eight things you might not have known about it. Observant Jews fasted from Tuesday night through Wednesday, and many spend the day in synagogue.

The holiday begins at sundown Tuesday, just hours after Francis’ arrival in Washington. “Through our prayers and through our actions, as individuals and as a community, we can better bridge the realities of our world with the ideals and values we share”, the president continued.

“I certainly don’t believe this is a huge Jewish issue or any kind of a crisis of interfaith relations”, he chuckled. We are diverse – our diversity is part of what makes New York great, and it is the very core of who we are.