Yom Kippur
noun
Yom Kip·pur
ˌyōm-ki-ˈpu̇r 
ˌyȯm-,
ˌyäm-
-ˈki-pər,
-(ˌ)pu̇r
: a Jewish holiday observed with fasting and prayer on the 10th day of Tishri in accordance with the rites described in Leviticus 16
called also Day of Atonement
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Most Americans are likely familiar with the fall-season Yom Kippur fast, part of the High Holy Days that commence, 10 days earlier, with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
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Avi Shafran, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned months after the Yom Kippur War of 1973, when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year, killing over 2,600 Israeli soldiers.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
It is assumed that there will be many more resignations when the war is finally over and there is a full government investigation, as there was after the Yom Kippur War.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
Father Brake was later detained in Moscow while trying to aid Soviet Jews known as refuseniks, who had been denied permission to emigrate, and was arrested outside the Soviet Embassy in Washington in 1985 during a protest marking Yom Kippur.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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Avi Shafran, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned months after the Yom Kippur War of 1973, when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year, killing over 2,600 Israeli soldiers.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
It is assumed that there will be many more resignations when the war is finally over and there is a full government investigation, as there was after the Yom Kippur War.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
Father Brake was later detained in Moscow while trying to aid Soviet Jews known as refuseniks, who had been denied permission to emigrate, and was arrested outside the Soviet Embassy in Washington in 1985 during a protest marking Yom Kippur.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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Yom Kippur
noun
Yom Kip·pur
ˌyōm-ki-ˈpu̇r
ˌyȯm-
ˌyȯm-
ˌyäm-,
-ˈkip-ər
: a Jewish holiday observed in September or October with fasting and prayer as ways of making up for sins
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