Atoning Via Social Media

Thursday, 05 September 2013 | by Pat's Picks

This is not your bubbe’s Yom Kippur, writes the Sun Sentinel this morning. The Jewish High Holidays are a time to ask forgiveness for the people you have wronged in the previous year, something that has traditionally been done face to face. But these days, Facebook and Twitter have become popular ways to atone quickly and succinctly. Some rabbis say using social media to ask forgiveness misses the whole point of the holidays while others, knowing their audience, have embraced the trend and gone so far as to set up an atonement hashtag.

SOURCE: Sun-Sentinel