A charlatan's guide to Yom Kippur

We can't help but feel that campus activity has grinded to a halt in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, and there's sadly no new issue of 34th Street this week to distract us.  And not like we check the numbers obsessively or anything, but we've also noticed a major dip in this blog's traffic since sundown yesterday.  We also feel a little sheepish being the only person around that's not fasting today.  So, as usual, we decided to type our problems into Google and see what the search engine offered up in return.

According to this Jewish news site we've never heard of, 63% of Israelis plan to fast for Yom Kippur.  Since Penn is, in our estimation, the most holy and Judaic of the Ivy League universities, we take this to mean that a lot of you are also fasting today.  Good on you!

This article from the Staten Island Advance offers us tips on breaking the Yom fast in the form of recipes for hummus and guacamole.  Gee, thanks, Staten Island Advance!

Our oracle Wikipedia informs us that today Jews should not: eat or drink, wear leather shoes, bathe, wear perfume/lotion, or have sex.  Ummm, aside from eating and drinking, we never do most of those things.  Have we been unwittingly atoning all this time?

This delightful blog post from the Boston Globe takes on that all-important question, what to wear on Yom Kippur, and also enlightens us as to why Crocs are popular among the Orthodox.

Well, that was informative!  Or not.  Today, we promise to atone for all our stupid blog posts.