g'mar chatima tova

 Yom Kippur begins at sundown today. I was raised Roman Catholic, not Jewish, although according the Israel's law of return, I'm Jewish. In practice, I'm an atheist.

But there are certainly worthwhile practices framed in religious terms that we all can endorse. This is one for Yom Kippur:

"You don’t have to be Jewish to recognize how much harm is done by the sins we commit against one another — above all, by the words we use in talking (or texting or tweeting or posting or e-mailing) to and about one another. You don’t have to be a believer to know that no good can come of our vanishing ability to find common ground. You don’t have to observe a Day of Atonement to wish there were more forgiveness in our world.

But the world won’t change unless we change ourselves. However much it goes against the grain, we must learn to communicate more sympathy and less anger, to balance our own passionate convictions with greater forbearance toward others. It isn’t an easy aspiration — Lord knows, I often fall short — but Yom Kippur is an annual reminder that if we don’t try, we are headed for disaster. Heaven will not smile upon us if we won’t even try to smile upon each other."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/15/opinion/sins-we-commit-with-words/