Just returned from a break the fast dinner at my friends Barb and Glenn Cohen’s home. It is an annual tradition celebrating the end of the holiday of Yom Kippur during which we fast from sundown the night before to sundown the next day. As always, wonderful food was brought by the guests as well as being provided…

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