[Photo credit]My Dear
Friends,
How many
of you remember Yom Kippur of 1973?
50 years
ago, on Yom Kippur morning, October 6, 1973, when I was 14 years old, the
sanctity of our holiest day of the year was violently and irrevocably disrupted
when the armies of Syria and Egypt launched cross-border attacks through the
Sinai and the Golan Heights against the State of Israel. For the first 48 hours,