September 24, 1993 • Page Image 52
…ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSISTANT EDITOR t is the most solemn day of the year, the Sabbath of Sabbaths, a time of absolution and atonement. Even in the Nazi death camps, where a day's meal consisted — if anything — of a tiny piece of hard bread, Jewish pris- oners regularly fasted on Yom Kippur. In Jerusalem, a haunting calm and silence hold the city. There is virtually no traffic. Phones do not ring. Televisions remain turned off. The sense of s...…

















































