“A half-Jew writes her own Yom Kippur prayer.” —Laurel Snyder, a ‘JewishyIrishy’ poet in Iowa City and editor of Land-Grant College Review, Killing the Buddha [via walker]. Today is the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest of the High Holy Days in the Jewish calendar, for those who hadn’t had the opportunity to notice.