That reminds me of driving around suburban Connecticut on Christmas or Easter Sunday, when virtually everything is closed.
My grandmother was 100% chicken liver. I can still taste her chicken liver with fried onions and hard-boiled eggs and she’s been gone for more than 35 years.
Beef liver or chicken liver, either way it’s fleishig so no combining with dairy if you keep kosher (not that we did).
The woman I love treated me to Domino’s pan pizza (1/2 mushrooms, 1/2 onions and green peppers) and brownie/cookies. It was wonderful.
The no-chicken-with-dairy is a rabbinical prohibition so if you wanted to rules lawyer it you could say the Torah did not forbid that combination, but the rabbis doing their “fence around the rules” imposed the greater restriction.
But yes, in practice neither form of chopped liver is eaten with anything dairy.
Bur liver-flavored eggplant salad - a popular Israeli dish - can.
Two double-doubles at In-n-Out.
I’m not Jewish. I just only eat one meal a day, and that day it was at 10:30p (but the day before at 7p).
Ok, I did have a coffee earlier, so I guess it doesn’t count. Plus I took a shower and wore leather shoes.
If you want to get legalistic about it, the Torah didn’t prohibit meat with mild either. It prohibited cooking meat in its mother’s milk. To go from there to no chicken and milk is a real stretch, especially given that chickens don’t make milk.
My wedding had a kosher caterer and they produced a mock chopped liver made from beans. It was actually pretty tasty. And this was back in 1964 long before the current craze for mock meat.
I had the same experience as well! Except I did not stock up on anything in advance. I did not expect generic convenience stores and mini-markets to close, and it took a while to find a place that was open. (I think religious coercion is still a problem in Israel even now. Once a Lutheran told me she was afraid to open her shop on Yom Kippur. This year I read there were public clashes on Yom Kippur between Orthodox Jews and secular Jews and other groups.)
Non-Rabbinical Jews do not have to rules-lawyer, since they don’t care about rabbinical law in the first place and they do eat meat and milk together.
True.
I’ve long seen a sort of “more observant than YOU” streak in some Jews. Not the way I think or live, but how they conduct their affairs is not my business.
Everything is closed on Yom Kippur in Israel. Everything. You know what Israelis call businesses that never close? 24/7/364. Because even places that are always open close for one day a year.
Just how rigid is this? If you have a heart attack, an ambulance won’t come?
Or if a hostile state launches an attack, your soldiers won’t fight? (We know that one is not true)…
Saving a human life takes precedence over pretty much everything else so yes, you’d get an ambulance if you needed it.
The 1973 war took place during a time during which it started on both Yom Kippur and Ramadan. Great, two opposing sides, both hangry, with a whole lot of other nations taking sides. Just happy it didn’t turn into WWIII.
I did not see a whole lot of vehicular traffic (in the middle of Tel Aviv!), but what I did notice were a few ambulances, cop cars, and the very occasional private car. Maybe some neighbourhoods with a heavy proportion of immigrants, or on the other hand some parts of Jaffa, are more exciting (or have an actual restaurant open) but I did not check.
I vaguely remember a story that Dayan and Meir were explicitly told by both the Soviet Union and the U.S. that the nuclear option was off the table for Israel. (Though, Wikipedia suggests that Meir “authorized” a nuclear alert, hinting at a possible “Samson option”, i.e. WWIII once the USSR gets involved, to pressure Nixon into airlifting more supplies.)
I taper off caffeine between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Otherwise, I’d get migraines (or take caffeine.) I break my fast at the temple, with a glass of orange juice. Then i usually go home and eat supper with my family. This year we had bagels, cream cheese, lox, white fish, pickled herring, corned beef, tongue, and Genoa salami. No, we don’t keep kosher. 
Other than the caffeine, i find the fast easy. Years of practice will do that. Years of practice fasting for Yom Kippur also makes fasting for a colonoscopy trivial. You mean, i can have as much as i want to drink, and also have ginger ale, jello, and gummy bears? Easy peasy.
Getting a bit off-topic, but I’m just recounting travel experiences here. I was in Beersheeba, which is in the negev desert quite a bit south of Jerusalem. It’s a smallish but significant city in the region, I think. There is a big riverbed which semed to be almost completely dry; I wonder how often it flows?
I was stopping over on the way to visit the Dead Sea and Masada, things on any bucket list.
Glad to have seen that part of the world!
No, no. Security and rescue services never take a day off. I think Yom Kippur is one of the busiest days a year for EMS - not just for fast-related emergencies, but also for bicycle accidents. Because no-one drives, everyone who isn’t in shul is out riding their bike in the middle of the street.
That’s funny because of course Israeli years are not 365 days long. They are usually either around 254 days (ordinary years) or 285 days (leap years). There are 7 leap years and 12 ordinary years in every 19 year cycle.
That seems a liiiiitle on the short side (according to Wikipedia, it’s ~354 days or ~384 days, depending).
Must have been thinking of those Jews on Venus.
Of course you’re right. Brain cramp. Twelve months of 29 or 30 days (with some variations so that certain holidays don’t conflict with the Sabbath) in ordinary years and 13 months in leap years.