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Yom Kippur

With Yom Kippur coinciding with a monumental football game between the Aggies and Alabama, some Jewish students at Texas A&M are rescheduling their holiday to accomodate the game.

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With Yom Kippur only hours away, you may already be dreading the caffeine headache that will soon distract you from your morning prayers. Yom Kippur may be the Day of Atonement, but how can you focus on atonement without any coffee coursing through your veins? How can you be expected to stay awake through a service without the necessary […]

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Yom Kippur 1890 was a typical day for Jewish repentance but an extraordinary day for Jewish women: It was the first time a woman delivered a sermon from the pulpit. Addressing a mixed gathering of Orthodox and Reform Jews in Spokane, Washington, a woman named Ray Frank underscored the importance of the moment. “For a woman to be at any time asked to […]

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