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Yom Kippur’s Prohibition Against Leather

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Like many Jews, I will be wearing white, nonleather athletic sneakers to synagogue tonight and tomorrow for Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). I have dress shoes that are nonleather-all my shoes are. But I choose to make the point as glaringly as possible: Jews are prohibited from wearing leather on Yom …

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