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Reuters – Every year millions of Jews fast on their holiest day, Yom Kippur, and millions of Muslims fast for the month of Ramadan — and every year, as many as 40 percent of those fasting develop serious headaches. But given the prohibitions against taking anything by mouth, there’s little these observers can do until the fast ends – nightly for Muslims, and after 25 hours for Jews.

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Christians that observe the Day of Atonement normally teach that on that day they are to be at one with God. And that fasting humbles them and makes them realize how dependent they are on God for all their needs. They also believe that they are dependent upon the sacrifice of Jesus for their salvation, but that Satan does play a role in encouraging people to sin.

The Living Church of God states this about the Day of Atonement (and more detail is in the article The Day of Atonement–Its Christian Significance):

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(AP) – JERUSALEM – The start of the Jewish Day of Atonement at sundown Sunday marked the beginning of a day like no other in Israel, on which even Israelis with no connection to religion tend to put their normal lives on hold. This year Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, comes at a particularly somber time following revelations of a previously hidden Iranian nuclear facility and more missile tests by the Revolutionary Guard. “That proves to whoever was still in doubt that Iran is the most serious…

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How far can contemporary big-bucks sports go toward a simpler time? A century ago, Christy Mathewson would not pitch on the Christian Sabbath. In Philadelphia, major league ball was banned on Sundays until 1934, but blue laws are not coming back. Besides, moving up Sunday sports events to 1 only raises the temptation to skip church.

Everybody knows that in a complicated, diverse, secular nation, observance is ultimately a personal decision. If Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg did not play in the World Series on Yom Kippur, fans could afford to skip one Yankees-Red Sox game, which just may be a prelude to a championship series in a few weeks.

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Yom Kippur, the holiest and most somber day of the Jewish calendar, is a time for repentance, traditionally reserved for fasting and intense prayer. But scores of Iranian American Jews in Los Angeles, many of whom congregate in just a handful of synagogues across the city, aren’t just looking for forgiveness on the Day of Atonement.

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In the days before Yom Kippur, which begins on Sunday evening, many Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, N.Y., will wave chickens over their heads and say the prayer of Kapparot (or Kapparos, depending on heritage). But the more than 1,000-year-old atonement ritual has concerned some in the community, who worry about animal cruelty.

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The high holy day of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, begins Sunday at sundown. On this day of fasting and prayer, Jews are to reflect on their misdeeds, confess them privately and publicly, and receive forgiveness from God. They are also to forgive others who atone for their wrongdoing.

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The Rev. Ed Dobson has spent most of his life following Jesus. But only now does he realize how hard it is to live like him. The retired megachurch pastor and one-time architect of the religious right has spent the last year trying to eat, pray, talk and even vote as Jesus would.

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As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, shofars are blown in synagogues daily to mark the run-up to the High Holy Days. But it has emerged that hundreds of substandard animal horns are being passed off as kosher shofars in Israel’s Judaica shops. –

Forward.com reports Despite the length of the Rosh Hashanah synagogue service, only one
of the 613 commandments in the Torah unique to the holiday is fulfilled
there — hearing the notes of the shofar. Unless those tones are blown
on a kosher shofar, congregants have not met their obligation in the
eyes of Jewish law.

For this reason, religious leaders are reacting to the sale of
counterfeit horns with alarm. “People, nonreligious as well as
religious, cram into synagogues to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. It
will be an enormous shame if it turns out that they are not fulfilling
the mitzvah,” said the Tel Aviv Rabbinate’s Rabbi Aryeh Levin, who is
publicizing the problem, in an interview with the Forward.

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