Yom Kippur (/ˌjɒm kɪˈpʊər, ˌjɔːm ˈkɪpər, ˌjoʊm-/ YAHM kip-OOR, YAWM KIP-ər, YOHM-; Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎ Yōm Kīppūr [ˈjom kiˈpuʁ], lit. 'Day of Atonement')...

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought...

and in Orthodox Judaism: On Shabbat and Yom Kippur all melakha is prohibited. On a holiday other than Yom Kippur which falls on a weekday, not Shabbat,...

Judaism, the Yom Kippur Temple service was a special sacrificial service performed by the High Priest of Israel on the holiday of Yom Kippur, in the Temple...

Hemisphere. Rosh Hashanah begins ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur, as well as beginning the cycle of autumnal religious festivals running...

and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The war began when Hamas-led militant groups launched a surprise...

consist of: strictly, the holidays of Rosh Hashanah ("Jewish New Year") and Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement"); by extension, the period of ten days including those...

the 1965 World Series because it coincided with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur garnered national attention and made him an iconic figure within the American...

missile boats era, beginning in 1965 and bearing fruit during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Until 1967 the Naval Headquarters were located at Stella Maris, on...

Nepal, then-lieutenant colonel Ben Hanan learned of the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Over the course of a few days, he returned to Israel and arrived...

leaders to promote her vision of peace in the region. The outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 caught Israel off guard and inflicted severe early losses...

holiday begins. Yom Kippur following Rosh Hashanah, will symbolize the end of mourning, and the end of both shiva and sheloshim. During Yom Kippur, any days...

will fall. Saturday, September 11: Rosh HaShanah* Monday, September 20: Yom Kippur* Saturday, September 25: Sukkot* Saturday, October 2: Shemini Atzeret*...

Aramaic: כָּל נִדְרֵי kāl niḏrē) is an Aramaic declaration which begins Yom Kippur services in the synagogue. Strictly speaking, it is not a prayer, even...

repeated bombings of strategic targets deep within enemy territory. When the Yom Kippur War broke out on October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian advances forced...

1973, Egypt and Syria launched a joint attack on Israel resulting in the Yom Kippur War. The United States became concerned that the Soviet Union might intervene...

1970 with frontiers remaining in the same place as when the war began. Yom Kippur War (October 1973) – Fought from 6 to 26 October 1973 by a coalition of...

is Yom Kippur. Similarly, if Yom Kippur fell on a Sunday (Yom Rishon), it would not be possible to make the necessary preparations for Yom Kippur, including...

conclusion of Yom Kippur. These days usually fall in September and/or early October. Due to the proximity to Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in this period...

commitment to serious peace negotiations. In October 1973 Egypt began the Yom Kippur War with an attempt to take back the east bank of the canal and the entire...

from sunset (the start of "the evening") to the next sunset. Similarly, Yom Kippur, Passover, and Shabbat are described in the Bible as lasting "from evening...

and Rosh Chodesh. Ne'ila (נְעִילָה‎, "closing"), is recited only on Yom Kippur. A distinction is made between individual prayer and communal prayer,...

The Yom Kippur balls were countercultural, antireligious festivities held by Jewish anarchists and socialists on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish...

Yom Kippur 1984 is a poem by the Jewish-American poet Adrienne Rich. One of Rich's key poems, it was reprinted in her 1986 collection Your Native Land...

on Yom Kippur. On the eve of Yom Kippur, before candles are lit, a prefast meal, the "seuda mafseket", is eaten. Synagogue services on the eve of Yom Kippur...

beginning the Yom Kippur War. 11 Tishrei – The Baal Shem Tov wrote that the day after Yom Kippur is an even greater holiday than Yom Kippur itself, a day...

Yom Kippur Katan (יום כיפור קטן‎ translation from Hebrew: "Minor Day of Atonement"), is a practice observed by some Jews on the day preceding each Rosh...

including the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, Operation Entebbe, the 1978 South Lebanon conflict, the 1982 and...

holidays Yom tov sheni shel galuyot The second festival day in the Diaspora Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement Yom Kippur Katan Minor Day of Atonement Yom Ha'atzmaut...

Syria ignored the Geneva Conventions and many Israeli prisoners of war were tortured or killed. Advancing Israeli forces, re-capturing land taken by the...