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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The 1965 Dodgers were bludgeoned in Games 1 and 2 in Minnesota, Don Drysdale losing the opener, 8-2, and Sandy Koufax – who had missed that Game 1 start to observe Yom Kippur – dropping Game 2, 5-1. —

Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 27 Oct. 2024 In 1973: The United Nations brokered a cease-fire between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria, essentially ending the Yom Kippur War. —

Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024 Friday night, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, a Hezbollah drone struck a building in Herzliya, in central Israel, but air raid sirens had alerted people to seek shelter and there were no injuries. —

Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024 Canada's Global News reported a Jewish school for girls was shot at for a second time in a year on the eve of Yom Kippur on Friday in Toronto. —

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