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This probably isn't of interest to anyone else; it's just a reminder for myself, because it's taken me a few years to figure this out.

The following worked well for pre-Yom-Kippur meals:

Lunch: large meal, protein -- big piece of fish, veggies, bread, some rice (Mallorca).

Dinner: normal-sized meal, protein -- spinach quiche, herring, carrots, soy milk.

Gradually reduced the caffeine over the week; Friday I had tea with lunch and one can of Diet Coke mid-afternoon. Headache started around 5pm Yom Kippur; don't know if it was caffeine, eyestrain (lighting sub-optimal in parts of synagogue), or something else.

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From:

cellio

I went to late Kol Nidre and early morning service, which left me with about three hours of dead time (during the late service). Last year I snuck into the library and read; this year I went home and came back. Next year I'll probably just cave and go to the late service, but I really prefer the music at the early one. (I'm also going to lobby for swapping them, but I predict failure there.)

(Both sessions I attended would have benefitted from having more time available. Oh well.)

That can be hard to judge, unfortunately. Last year they allocated 45 minutes per class and that wasn't enough; this year they initially allocated 60 minutes, but then compressed a bit due to the slippage earlier in the day. I think they wound up with about 50 minutes per session -- if the teachers planned for 60 and didn't have practice adapting on the fly, that could result in things feeling rushed. (Which classes did you go to?)

From:

geekosaur

I don't recall the title of the first class (and it's not on the tentative list from the web page, as far as I can tell) but it was about how one views the Torah: fact vs. "Jewish truth" vs. mythology (in the William Burroughs sense) etc. There weren't many people there, but I think we all would have liked a few more hours to discuss it. :)

The second was Rabbi Freedman's class on teshuvah as discussed by the Rambam in the Mishneh Torah.

From:

cellio

Hmm. I wonder which that first class was too -- if I had interpreted one of the titles as that I would have gone. :-)

Rabbi Freedman gave a short class at S'lichot on the Rambam material. You probably got farther than we did because you had more time.

I went to the class on youth issues, which I thought was going to be about how congregations can work with kids better, but ended up being about what "kids these days" are bothered by in the world at large. Kind of interesting but not a lot of Jewish content.

Rabbi Gibson's class was neat, and I'll eventually write this up in a top-level entry. As sort of an exercise in Jewish cultural anthropology, he had a collection of "Dear Abby"-style letters from the Jewish press over the last century. It made for some interesting discussion on assimilation, intermarriage, kids becoming more religious than their parents, etc. Some issues are forever. :-)