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Yom Kippur

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, completed in 1415, is set to go on auction on February 5, 2026.(Courtesy of Sotheby’s)
February 5, 2026, 4:13 pm
Rare 15th-century prayer book looted by Nazis expected to fetch millions at auction
Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, completed five years before community’s destruction, going under hammer after being returned to heirs in 2023; expected to sell for $5-7 million
By Rossella Tercatin
Members of the media gather by the police cordon next to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025, following a terrorist attack at the synagogue. (Oli Scarff / AFP)
October 3, 2025, 5:02 am
Manchester terrorist named; Starmer: Suspect ‘attacked Jews because they are Jews’
Jihad al-Shamie, 35, was British citizen of Syrian descent; authorities reportedly allow anti-Israel protest to proceed in same city as attack within hours of it unfolding
By ToI Staff, Agencies and Lazar Berman
The empty streets in Jerusalem, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
October 2, 2025, 9:00 pm
Medics treat over 3,000 on Yom Kippur; 7 injured running for shelter in rocket attack
293 suffer effects of fast; 295 injured on bicycles, another 23 hurt in car accidents, emergency service says; 3 babies delivered by medics
By ToI Staff
The empty streets in south Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025 (Dor Pazuelo/Flash 90)
October 2, 2025, 8:49 pm
Israelis flood the streets on bikes, taking advantage of Yom Kippur’s car-free roads
For 25 hours, nation’s streets remain largely empty of vehicles on holiest day of the Jewish calendar
By ToI Staff
Jihad al-Shamie, the suspect who carried out a deadly terrorist attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, UK, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025. (Image circulated on social media used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 2, 2025, 5:05 pm
2 killed, 4 seriously injured in Yom Kippur attack at UK synagogue; terrorist shot dead
Assailant rams car into worshippers, then stabs them, tried to break into crowded synagogue; officer heard yelling suspect ‘has a bomb’; police presence boosted at synagogues across UK
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) leave the State Dining Room of the White House after a press conference in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025, at which Trump set out a plan to end the war in Gaza. (Win McNamee / Getty Images via AFP)
October 1, 2025, 4:36 pm
On Yom Kippur, the faint hope of a ‘good conclusion’
There is no shortage of clear-headed grounds for pessimism. But right now, perhaps more than at any time in the past two years, there is at least a concerted effort to change the terrible new normal
By David Horovitz
Jews praying for forgiveness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, early on October 1, 2025, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 1, 2025, 4:31 pm
Israel marks tense Yom Kippur, as Hamas mulls Trump’s offer and army fights in Gaza
On Day of Atonement, Navy prepares to intercept large Gaza-bound aid flotilla while troops have been reinforced along all fronts amid concerns for potential friction
By ToI Staff
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani holds a campaign event with the healthcare worker's union on September 24, 2025, outside of St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)
September 26, 2025, 7:10 pm
Rep. Jerry Nadler’s NYC synagogue rebuffs claims Mamdani will attend Yom Kippur services
Anti-Israel mayoral candidate faces criticism even as he joins City Comptroller Brad Lander’s progressive, pro-Palestinian congregation on Rosh Hashanah
By Grace Gilson
The final pages of a 14th-century Yom Kippur prayer book including previously unknown liturgical poems unveiled by the National Library on September 25, 2025. (Courtesy of Kedem Auction House)
September 25, 2025, 11:47 pm
14th-century ‘machzor’ book at Israel’s National Library reveals lost Yom Kippur prayers
Newly digitized prayer book from Crimea’s Kaffa rite preserves liturgical poems unknown elsewhere, giving a glimpse of traditions lost when prayers were largely standardized
By Rossella Tercatin
US Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, speaks on the Senate floor, April 1, 2025. (Senate Television via AP)
April 2, 2025, 8:12 pm
Booker’s 25-hour speech draws Yom Kippur jokes, LA rabbi’s praise
Sharon Brous of IKAR, where the senator also spoke last Yom Kippur, says everyone should ‘find the fortitude’ to be like Booker, who fasted all day while breaking Senate record
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Congregants from Ec Chajim pray in Prague's Klausen Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 11, 2024. (Dana Cabanova; courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)
October 13, 2024, 11:32 pm
Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust
Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the crowds expected for the sacred day
By Shira Li Bartov
Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell leave a Yom Kippur service at Circulo Israelita de Santiago, Oct. 12, 2024. (Courtesy Circulo Israelita de Santiago)
October 13, 2024, 4:40 pm
Paul McCartney spotted rocking Yom Kippur services in Chile
The British music legend, whose wife is Jewish, has attended High Holiday prayers in the past, and has been described as having a ‘love affair with all things Jewish’
By ToI Staff and JTA
Bais Chaya Mushka, a Jewish girls' school in Toronto, Canada, in an undated photo. (Screenshot)
October 13, 2024, 6:54 am
Toronto Jewish school targeted by gunfire during Yom Kippur, in 2nd attack in months
Trudeau says he’s ‘very disturbed’ by incident, which comes amid dramatic rise in antisemitic attacks in the country as war rages in Middle East
By AFP and ToI Staff
Families of hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv with other activists during a protest calling for the hostages' release, October 12, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
October 13, 2024, 3:13 am
‘No forgiveness’: Yom Kippur-themed protests slam Netanyahu for ‘neglecting’ hostages
5 arrested as activists block Tel Aviv highway, light tires to form message: ‘Sorry we were taken hostage’; Families Forum and others arrange prayer services at Hostages Square
By ToI Staff
Empty streets in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, October 12, 2024 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
October 12, 2024, 8:35 pm
Medics treat 2,842 for injuries on Yom Kippur, including three wounded by rocket blast
12 hurt running to bomb shelters; 286 suffer effects of fasting; 283 injured in car accidents or biking; 146 women in labor taken to hospital, with one baby delivered in ambulance
By ToI Staff
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