@geske https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_balls

@derpayatz hmmmmmmmmmm cautious respect

@derpayatz certainly American atheism is drenched in christianity, if this was how jewish atheists did it then so be it

@geske I am inviting people over to my house tomorrow because secular Jews exist and just because our institutions were systematically annihilated under McCarthy doesn't mean we should just sit alone and ashamed on Yom Kippur, or participate in rituals that are meaningless to us or worse =)

@derpayatz FUCK mccarthy, celebrate yourselves & each other

@gaditb YES THANK YOU

@derpayatz More specifically put: One of the core parts of Judaism is its usage as a framework wherein ethical, etc. questions can be expressed in the symbology, halacha, traditions, etc. -- framework -- of Judaism,
and answered within that framework with a much more focused context than they could with the outside possible context of "uh, everything, I guess".

Things like Yom Kippur Balls are still very much engaging with that framework.