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Yom Kippur etiquette guide: Forgive and be forgiven

With Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, about to begin Friday evening, there's news of a new recording, in a different arrangement, of Arnold Schoenberg's 1938 choral adaptation of “Kol Nidre,” one of the holiday's central prayers. Sure it's kind of irreverent–but the closest thing I possess to a pious photo) Tonight at sundown [...]