Yom Kippur: workplace accommodations for ERGs services for ERGs.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism — a day of fasting and reflection. Calendar awareness is the bare minimum.
Holiest day
More than a calendar moment.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year — a 25-hour fast spent in reflection, repentance, and synagogue. Pew Research Center's Jewish Americans in 2020 study found Yom Kippur is the most widely observed day across all Jewish denominations and identification levels, more than any other holiday. For Jewish ERG members, calendar respect on this one day reflects whether the company actually thinks of them as a community or just a category.
The Yom Kippur pitfalls.
What sinks Yom Kippur programming isn't usually a missing speaker — it's a misread of the moment. The three misses worth naming out loud.
Scheduling Jewish ERG programming around mealtimes.
Be mindful of the timing — fasting members likely can’t eat or drink, so a lunch-and-learn or breakfast session lands wrong. Pick a format and time that doesn’t assume people are eating.
Day-of-Yom-Kippur emails to Jewish colleagues.
Hold the send. They are not checking.
Same-week launches.
Build the launch calendar with the High Holidays already blocked, not as an exception.
Curated for Yom Kippur.
Speakers, facilitators, and vendors filtered for Yom Kippur programming. Pulled live from ERGs.io — every profile is one click away from a full bio, rate, and inquiry form inside the platform.
Other observances in the calendar.
Every observance gets its own planning page — speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a timeline.
Stop scrambling. Start planning the month that lands.
ERGs.io pulls every speaker, vendor, and programming format into one workspace — so planning Yom Kippur takes one afternoon, not one month of late nights. Free to start.