Yom Kippur Edition: Forgiving My Brother; Reconsidering Psalms; Breaking the Fast

[View this email in your browser]( 24 September 2023 • 9 Tishri 5784 VOL. 2, ISSUE 34 Yom Kippur readings on Jonah, 'shnuddering,' atonement, mortality, and Leonard Cohen; an S.Y. Agnon story; recipes for your break fast, and more [DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ISSUE]( # [The Rise of the Yom Kippur Appeal]( [Why synagogues turned away from weekly ‘shnuddering’ and adopted an annual donation campaign instead](#) [BY JENNA WEISSMAN JOSELIT](#) # [A Tale of Two Atonements]( [Why I couldn’t forgive my brother as a Christian—but could ask his forgiveness as a Jew](#) [BY THOMAS BALAZS](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Talking the Talk]( Ep. 380: Linguist Deborah Tannen on ‘cooperative overlap,’ Peoplehood founder Julie Rice on creating community through conversation, and Mitchell Silk on communicating across languages and cultures SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 [The Survivors’ Temple]( [On Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the 1960s, my parents didn’t belong to a synagogue, but they found an ad hoc congregation in an unlikely place for the High Holidays](#) [BY CAROL UNGAR](#) [The Ghosts Between Us and God]( [On Yom Kippur, reconsidering the Book of Psalms in light of those who were murdered in the Holocaust](#) [BY MENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT](#) # [During Kol Nidre, a Shocking Reminder of My Mortality]( [As we recite the ‘Unetaneh Tokef’ prayer on Yom Kippur, we remember that life is finite. For me, that realization came with a jolt of electricity](#) [BY REBECCA STANFEL](#) # [How to Have Fun Breaking the Fast]( [Cookbook author Jake Cohen offers advice on how to whip up a memorable post-Yom Kippur meal. But first, don’t forget the coffee](#) [BY JAMIE BETESH CARTER](#) # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](