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Eating by Example on Yom Kippur

It once appeared in an Israeli newspaper and had the elements of a good story. An epidemic. A famous rabbi. Public eating on Yom Kippur to prove a point. The epidemic took place somewhere in Europe, sometime in the 19th century.

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Eating by Example on Yom Kippur

It once appeared in an Israeli newspaper and had the elements of a good story. An epidemic. A famous rabbi. Public eating on Yom Kippur to prove a point. The epidemic took place somewhere in Europe, sometime in the 19th century.

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