Article: For Jews, a day to remember truths of life, death; Yom Kippur, a time to honor lost loved ones, begins today at sundown.(NEWS)

1/3 For Jews, Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year, the Day of Atonement marked by praying, fasting, soul searching and repenting. But Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown today and ends at sundown Monday, also is a day to recall good deeds - treasured remembrances of parents no longer living.

"The focus of Yom Kippur altogether is to give us that sense of the preciousness of life, the nobility of life where we know the most important truths lie," Rabbi Stacy Offner, the Minnesota Senate's first female Jewish chaplain, said last week.

"Yet we forget those truths all the time," said Offner, of the Shir Tikvah congregation in Minneapolis. "One of the times we ...

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