American Jews were not sure how to respond. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War — which broke out on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar in 1973 and lasted for about three weeks — some of ...

Yom Kippur. Jews throughout the world were observing this sacred day of religious commitment; but in Israel, the day was shattered by the news that war between the Jews and Arabs once again had begun.

In 1973 they launched major offensives against Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur. The Egyptians drove the Israelis from the Suez Canal. FISK: The '73 war, the crossing of the Suez Canal ...

(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series. “Who by Fire ...

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. The majority of combat between the two sides took ...

Yoram was killed in the Golan Heights on the second day of the Yom Kippur War, 7 October, 1973. Yoram’s younger brother, Ido, was 11 years old when Yoram was killed. He tells us about their ...

Yom Kippur means Day of Atonement. It is the most sacred and solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through ...