Comedy Central’s hit show about two young Jewish women, Broad City, shows how they struggle with fasting on Yom Kippur and the difficulties of waiting until sunset to break the fast. Granted, there’s something perverse about breaking your Yom Kippur fast with a bacon, egg and cheese bagel, but as the girls noted at the […]
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Just in time for the Days of Awe, Darshan, the neo-hasidic folk-rap duo release a new music video, “Know Return”, a poetic meditation on the spiritual cycle of Teshuva that characterizes the months of Elul and Tishrei, including Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur. Through a series of dream-like tableaus, colorful moving images […]
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The topic may be morbid but with the rapid approach Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the Days of Awe, this is an appropriate time to contemplate your past, your present, your future and your imminent mortality. You can get all deep and thoughtful about the decisions you’ve made, the relationships you’ve pursued etc. Or you […]
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Assembling at Montreal’s Holy Temple of poutine, La Banquise, on the Jewish calendar’s holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur, Chaimie and Leizer argue about the meaning of the ritual of fasting while inevitably ritually eating. Drinking in the very best that Montreal’s multicultural Mile End has to offer, Chaimie and Leizer, best friends and […]
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