For Jews in the Diaspora, the experience is different. Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and forever a conflicted day. But there is, at least, a separate…
The Blogs: Reciting Yizkor on Shemini Atzeret, and dancing again on Simchat Torah | Daniel Z. Feldman
