Answer: What you refer to are commonly known as the “chamisha innuyyim,” the five self-afflictions one is to observe on YomKippur. These address the injunction to deprive oneself of pleasures ...
The IHSA board of directors in August approved moving the state finals from Oct. 11-12 to Oct. 18-19. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, begins sundown on Friday and ends at nightfall ...