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Times Are A Changin’: Saudi Citizen Sings Jewish Prayer Marking Jewish New Year

Hank Berrien
Times Are A Changin’: Saudi Citizen Sings Jewish Prayer Marking Jewish New Year
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On Thursday, outgoing U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt posted a video indicative of how much has changed in the Middle East in recent years, with a Saudi citizen singing the moving Jewish prayer “Avinu Malkeinu,” which is sung frequently during the ten days between Rosh Hashanah, which marks the Jewish New Year and was celebrated at the beginning of this week, and Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in which Jews ask God for forgiveness for their sins.

https://twitter.com/jdgreenblatt45/status/1179793394215915520

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