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    What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Ugandan Jew

    Shadrach Mugoya Levi sometimes went hungry when he was growing up. So a day without eating isn't that unusual. But it is meaningful.
    by Sara Toth Stub Sep 28, 2017 3 minutes
    Shadrach Mugoya Levi, right, at his recent wedding in Uganda. From left: his son Oren Levi and Moshe Isiko.

    The idea of giving up food for 25 hours for the Yom Kippur fast can seem daunting.

    But for Shadrach Mugoya Levi, it's not so unusual. In his impoverished village of Magada, Uganda, there are many days when there's not enough food to eat.

    "On Yom Kippur I am asking God to pardon me," Levi says of the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. "On other days when I don't have food, I still pray. I pray that I get what to eat, so that I can continue to live."

    Levi, the 28-year-old spiritual leader of

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