{"id":48336,"date":"2014-10-03T14:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=449d838f4e0320841065917ef2b450e2"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:14:06","slug":"news-story-messages-for-yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48336","title":{"rendered":"News story: Messages for Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Yom Kippur, starts tonight (on 3 October 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Yom Kippur (also known as Day of Atonement) is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. The day is traditionally observed with a day of fasting and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ahead of the holy day of Yom Kippur, I send my warmest good wishes to Britain\u2019s Jewish communities.<\/p>\n<p>Yom Kippur\u2019s universal message of forgiveness is an important one and provides a chance to step back from the distractions of everyday life and focus on that central theme.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts will be with all of you observing the fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">G\u2019mar Hatimah Tovah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See the video message by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gDClaoSSYw0&amp;list=UUT-cppgX-lbLOcIWRHmxirQ\">Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Communities Minister Lord Ahmad give messages to mark Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}