Yom Kippur

Recognize Yom Kippur as official holiday, 32 countries tell UN

Some 32 countries wrote a letter to a committee of the United Nations General Assembly in support of Israel’s bid to have the international body recognize Yom Kippur as an official holiday.

Special services held in Israel for safe return of teens

Synagogues, yeshivas and organizations throughout Israel held special services for the safe return of three kidnapped Israeli teens.

Israel asks U.N. to recognize Yom Kippur

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor requested that the world body’s headquarters recognize Yom Kippur as an official holiday.

Israel

Recognize Yom Kippur as official holiday, Israel asks U.N.

United States

Fund set up for teen hit by car on way to Yom Kippur services

Culture

Isaac Mizrahi works on Yom Kippur, creates ‘stir’ in N.Y. Jewish community

United States

Boulder-area synagogues suffer flood damage

Israel

Hundreds injured, fainted over Yom Kippur

Culture

Kvetching Fire: the video that will get you through Yom Kippur

Lifestyle

Thousands of kapparot chickens die in New York heat

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