Yom Kippur (/ˌjɒm kɪˈpʊər, ˌjɔːm ˈkɪpər, ˌjoʊm-/ YAHM kip-OOR, YAWM KIP-ər, YOHM-; Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎ Yōm Kippūr [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...

Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, like Hank Greenberg before him, garnered national attention and made...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

shofar is blown in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up...

synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on the night of Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement"). Strictly speaking, it is not a prayer, even though...

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

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...

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...

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...

where it was used as both an air superiority and strike aircraft, and the Yom Kippur War, during which it was used exclusively in air-to-air combat in conjunction...

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...

little doubt as to when Yom Kippur would fall. Combined with the difficulty of a 48-hour fast, this is enough to declare Yom Kippur just one day for the...

positions as part of the Syrian Army's General Staff reserve during the Yom Kippur War. In the opening day of the war, they shelled Mount Canaan [he], an...

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...