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The Unusual Way My Family Celebrates Yom Kippur

JL;DR SUMMARY Mark Rothschild shares his unconventional Yom Kippur tradition of replacing extended synagogue services with family hikes. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HolidaysJerusalemYom KippurChicagoSynagogueFastingFamily TraditionsNatureCincinnatiHiking

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Jerusalem, Israel
"We started the tradition when we lived in Jerusalem, when our boys were 3 and 5."
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
"When we moved to Cincinnati, we learned about glaciers and how long 3 miles feels."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"In Chicago, when the boys were joined by their new baby sister, we disappeared for hours into forests that somehow exist between highways and strip malls."

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