Category: Social Behavior

Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement

Yom Kippur 2025 begins at sundown on Wednesday, October 1, and ends at nightfall on Thursday, October 2. But it is not just a date. It is the climax of the Jewish spiritual calendar. It’s the final chance to change your judgment for the coming year.

If Rosh Hashanah is the day we are “written” in the Book of Life or Death, Yom Kippur is the day the ink dries.

Jews all over the world will fill synagogues, yes, even the secular ones who only show up once a year. Something deep in the Jewish heart knows that Yom Kippur matters. It is the only 25-hour period when the entire nation of Israel, religious, secular, rich, poor, Mizrahi, Ashkenazi – all stand together in front of God.

Things to Remember about Charlie Kirk

Kirk spread hate!

Kirk was known to be a gun owner himself and regularly spoke out on the issue, including on behalf of the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018.

At a Turning Point event in Salt Lake City in April 2023, he said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

Kirk adopted a traditional Christian conservative stance in his approach to many contemporary issues, telling an audience at a Trump election rally in Georgia last fall that Democrats “stand for everything God hates” and adding: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”

He also lashed out at the gay community, denouncing what he called the “LGBTQ agenda,” expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and suggesting that the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13, which endorses the execution of homosexuals, serves as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

Generally Kirk was loyal to Trump, whom he saw as key to establishing the conservative Christian America he wanted to help realize, one in which abortion is heavily restricted to cases of medical emergency in which the mother’s life cannot be saved by any other means, women enter higher education to find husbands and “woke” ideologies play no part in public life.