This Yom Kippur, I am not, as I should be, in synagogue. One of the things that makes me miss New York is the lack of a significant Jewish community here in the Bay Area. Of the 3 or 4 non-Orthodox synagogues here in San Francisco, there's none that we feel comfortable with, so we haven't joined one. I know there's other options in the East Bay and Marin, but I just don't like having to drive to shul.
I did read an interesting op-ed in the New York Times about the Yom Kippur War (which began 30 years ago today). I was 7 at the time, and I remember the shock of finding out that Israel was at war, the scared faces of my parents and their friends at synagogue that night, and the angry words. I think if they'd known that at the time, Moshe Dayan was seriously considering using nuclear weapons against the Egyptians, they'd have been even more worried. Golda Meir was right to turn him down flat.
At any rate, I feel guilty using the computer today, so I'd better post this and get offline.
