Posted on 10/01/2025 4:33:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yom Kippur concludes at sundown Thursday, ending the 10-day period on the Jewish calendar known as Days of Teshuvah.
The San Diego Police Department said its officers would be on heightened alert against any potential threats to the Jewish community starting Wednesday, when Yom Kippur begins at sundown.
"As always, when it comes to Yom Kippur, or any other significant event, we will conduct extra patrols in the areas where there are places of worship," SDPD spokesman Lt. Travis Easter said Tuesday.
The department cited tension in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war and recent attacks on places of worship, including an attack at a Church in Michigan last week, as reasons for doing so.
"We want to do our best to keep our community members safe and afford them the opportunity to express their form of worship in peace, Easter said."
Personnel with the county's regional law enforcement agency, likewise, will be extra vigilant during the holiday around synagogues and other places where members of the local Jewish community meet.
"The San Diego County Sheriff's Office is not aware of any known threats to our region related to Yom Kippur," the agency asserted in a prepared statement. "However, out of an abundance of caution, deputies will be conducting extra patrols at Jewish places of worship in (our) jurisdiction."
The Anti-Defamation League said antisemitic incidents have increased worldwide following Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, a major Jewish holiday, which killed 1,200 people and resulted in hundreds kidnapped. Israel retaliated with airstrikes that have continued, resulting in more than 65,000 people killed since Oct. 7, according to the United Nations.
According to Jewish tradition, Yom Kippur is the day Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the second set of commandment tablets -- he had smashed the first -- and announced God's pardon to the people for worshipping a golden calf.
Observant Jews believe that God inscribes the names of the righteous in the Book of Life on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and seals the book on Yom Kippur, 10 days later. For that reason, the traditional greeting among Jews on Yom Kippur is Gemar Chatima Tova, which means "good final sealing" and conveys the wish: "May your name be sealed in the book of life."
Yom Kippur services begin with the Kol Nidre, an ancient prayer that literally means "all vows" or "all promises." The last service of the day ends with the sounding of a ram's horn called a shofar.
Yom Kippur concludes at sundown Thursday, ending the 10-day period on the Jewish calendar known as Days of Teshuvah, which is variously translated as repentance, return and change, and the Days of Awe. Many Jews fast on Yom Kippur and spend much of the time in synagogues.
In Fargo freaking North Dakota in 2001-2008 we had hired armed off duty police at the front door every Friday night.
Kinda expensive to be Jewish when they’re gunnin’ for ya.
Will be armed security for my Grandson’s Bris in Texas soon.
Went by a Christian school South of Portland and saw a police officer standing in an open guard box at the entrance.
Were there attacks? And who was doing it?
Will be armed security for my Grandson’s Bris in Texas soon.
How would anyone know about the Bris? Are antisemitic attacks that rampant in Texas?
One of the worst wars in Israel was the Yom Kippur War (October 6-25, 1973) in which Egypt and Syria attacked during the solemn holy day when many Israelis were at home or in synagogues at prayer and fasting.
Until reversing a battle trend with victory at the Suez Canal, Israel was losing the war for some time.
Approximately 2,800 of the IDF were killed.
Estimates of up to 9,000 soldiers were wounded.
300 IDF soldiers were taken hostage. No civilians were reported killed directly in the war.
In the phrase Yom Kippur sameakh, what does “sameakh” mean?
We had Somalis in Fargo, courtesy of the Lutherans.
The Bris is likely to be at the Shul, and any event there has a cop out front.
Lots of muslims in Texas. Notably when there was a Draw Mohammed Day, a muslim tried to gun his way in, but was stopped by an armed officer duty cop, if recollection serves.
Wikipedia:
“The Curtis Culwell Center attack was a failed terrorist attack on an exhibit featuring cartoon images of Muhammad at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, US on May 3, 2015, which ended in a shootout with police guarding the event, and the deaths of the two perpetrators.[4] The attackers shot an unarmed Garland Independent School District (GISD) security officer in the ankle.[5][6] Shortly after opening fire, both attackers were shot by an off-duty Garland police officer and killed by SWAT.[7]”
Stay safe.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.🎶🎶
And we’ll stay free.
Praise the Lord and swing into position
Can’t afford to be a politician
Praise the Lord, we’re all between perdition
And the deep blue sea.
(1942 song)
I think you mean sameach, meaning happy. But that doesn’t see appropriate for Yom Kippur, which is more solemn.
True, they obviously attacked on the holiest day of the year for Israel to gain an advantage. But I assume military intelligence studies these things, where the average idiot doesn’t know.
The odds of any given terrorist attack are miniscule. But most populations under reasonable threat hire armed security. That means most (almost all?) public Jewish events everywhere in America.
For example, a Chanukah Menorah lighting ceremony here in Tacoma had a multi-officer presence a few years back.
My daughter’s wedding celebration and her daughter’s naming ceremony at the Synagogue in Waco were both policed.
The last time I remember a non-policed Jewish public event was back in the mid 1990s in Seattle. No police for Friday night services.
Except! At the Chabad House Havurah in Ashland Oregon held at the Rabbi’s unmarked house in the mid 2000s, we did not have security. We also did not have any public signage. So they’d have to do a bunch of research to make us.
They need extra security to protect them from the far left jew hating, Hamas loving freaks who have been terrorizing college campuses for years
Not that Jews are all that special anymore. A tranny can shoot up a church just fine in 2025, and I understand many churches have armed members trained to protect themselves.
Dangerous link.
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“One of the worst wars in Israel was the Yom Kippur War (October 6-25, 1973) in which Egypt and Syria attacked during the solemn holy day when many Israelis were at home or in synagogues at prayer and fasting.
Until reversing a battle trend with victory at the Suez Canal, Israel was losing the war for some time.
Approximately 2,800 of the IDF were killed.
Estimates of up to 9,000 soldiers were wounded.
300 IDF soldiers were taken hostage. No civilians were reported killed directly in the war.”
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Israel would have ceased to exist then if Nixon hadn’t created an air train of weapons and supplies to replenish its stores. I’ve often thought of that when Israel claims it’s alone in the world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15155541/shock-Jewish-community-four-stabbed-synagogue.html
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