http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/preparing-for-yom-kippur/ As society becomes fragmented and increasingly frenetic, there is more value than ever in the spiritual audit Yom Kippur provides, write Zaki Cooper and Michael Harris in the U.K. Guardian. Slate unpacks Kol Nidre – that prayer used by everyone from Neil Diamond to Beethoven, and by anti-Semites as evidence that Jews are duplicitous and two-faced. A Houston mother writes about her difficulty communicating with God on Yom Kippur ever since her prematurely born son, Aaron Joseph, died 13 years ago after just a few weeks of life. Haim Watzman links the U.S. elections and Yom Kippur in the Huffington Post, comparing the penitent Jew to the reflective voter. The “Big Brother” TV program being filmed in Israel will take an unprecedented one-day break – for Yom Kippur, reports The Associated Press. en-us uheilman@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-10-07T;15:58:04-05:00