Rabbi reflects on what it means to be Jewish ahead of Yom Kippur
Rabbi Avichai Apel holds a yad Torah pointer. (Liesa Johannssen/Pool Photo via AP)
Yom Kippur begins Friday night. It is Judaism’s holiest day and many Jewish people fast and seek forgiveness.
Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove about the holiday, last year’s Oct. 7 attacks, and what it means to be Jewish today. Rabbi Cosgrove is at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York. His new book is “For Such A Time As This: On Being Jewish Today.”
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