Some Jewish young adults who do not fast on Yom Kippur will gather in D.C. for a meetup meant to help them feel more connected to the holiday.
abstaining from food for all or part of Yom Kippur in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Among religiously observant Jews, the figure was 56 percent.people who need to eat do so privately so they don’t create the impression that consuming food on Yom Kippur is something to celebrate. He worried that GatherDC’s event is akin to hosting a party, on a day when Jews are supposed to be standing before God for judgment.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director at the public policy organization Coalition for Jewish Values. in the online event listing to those eating on Yom Kippur for “personal reasons,” she said, because arguments about what constitutes a valid reason not to fast were distracting. “It has always been kind of a struggle throughout Jewish history of balancing those guidelines and those rules and wanting to practice in a similar way and to uphold our traditions with meeting the real-life needs of individuals,” Zietman said.One 27-year-old lunch participant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the controversy around the event, said she grew up observing Yom Kippur at a conservative synagogue, where her mom volunteered and sang in the choir.
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