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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...

Kippur (Hebrew: כיפור) is a 2000 Israeli drama war film directed by Amos Gitai. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Gitai and Marie-Jose...

and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War 50 years earlier. The war began when Hamas-led militant groups launched...

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...

Woodman, also referred to by the press as the ninja murders and the Yom Kippur murders, took place on September 25, 1985, in West Los Angeles. The couple...

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...

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, most...

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...

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...

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

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...

The Yom Kippur War was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. Algeria...

its first distinctive words. The parashah sets forth the law of the Yom Kippur ritual, centralized offerings, blood, and sexual practices. The parashah...

Christian observances of Yom Kippur occur when a Christian-style Day of Atonement models itself on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. As observed by the Living...

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

Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (2 novellas) Oliver Goldsmith 1794 1861 poet The Rising Village...

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investigate failings in the Israel Defense Forces in the prelude to the Yom Kippur War, when Israel was found unprepared for the Egyptian attack against the...

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