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Updated at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Daylong Yom Kippur services set for Maui

Advertiser Staff

Father-and-son team Mendel Duchman and his son, J.J. will be praying and chanting traditional Yom Kippur melodies all day Saturday at the Ilima room at The Grand Wailea.

The service, which begins at 9 a.m., is for Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, which is spent praying and fasting. J.J. Duchman, who just had his bar mitzvah, starts off the event; Rabbi Sholom Schusterman continues by readiing the Torah scroll at 10 a.m. and holding a Yizkor memorial service at 11:30 a.m. Until 1 p.m. will be the chanting of the Musaf prayer and the Priestly Blessings.

Then, in the afternoon, a prayer service will be held at 5 p.m., followed by the closing Ne'ila service at 6 p.m. and concluding with the sounding of the Shofar (rams horn) and Chassidic melodies. Light refreshments will be served after the fast is over (6:56 p.m.).

The event is sponsored by The Maui Mitzvah Center, www.JewishMaui.com. Information: 323-938-1022.