Jews throughout Williamsburg snapped up caffeine suppositories today, hours before the start of the Yom Kippur fast that would deprive them of the jolt — and hunger suppression — that coffee typically ...

A writer named Chelsea Jacobson, who is 28 years old and lives in New York City, said that she would be able to satisfy her need for caffeine on Yom Kippur, which is the holiest day in the Jewish ...

We had heard tales of folks getting through Yom Kippur fasting with the help of little, bullet-shaped helpers: caffeine suppositories. In the name of Self-Investigative Journalism, Gothamist publisher ...

Yom Kippur is about atonement, cleansing your soul and starting anew. And since atonement doesn’t come easy, it also requires self-affliction, mostly performed through fasting. But if the fasting and ...

Eight years ago, the Forward wrote about the growing trend for caffeine suppositories among the devout to help get them through a day of fasting and praying, without even having to break their ...

Why was this night different from all other nights? Well, for one thing, I had inserted a caffeine suppository into my rectum. I did this at the recommendation of several Orthodox Jews. Unbeknownst to ...