Hurricane Milton disrupts Yom Kippur plans for Jews in Florida

Many Jews worldwide will mark Yom Kippur in fasting and prayer at their synagogues this weekend. But for the faithful in Florida, destructive Hurricane Milton has disrupted plans for observing the Day of Atonement. The holiest day of the year in the Jewish faith begins Friday evening and caps off the High Holy Days. Across the storm-threatened areas, rabbis and their congregants had prepped their homes and synagogues. Many — though not all — evacuated, heeding the voluntary and mandatory orders, and found safekeeping for their synagogues’ Torah scrolls and themselves. Milton hit Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as a Category 3 cyclone.