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In several of my most recent blog posts, I’ve been talking about Judaism — the High Holy Days in general, and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in particular. But many people who are new (or relatively new) to the study of religions do not necessarily have a very clear sense at all of just how…http://blog.beliefnet.com/religion101/files/2012/09/World-Jews.jpg