Yom Kippur: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Yom ha-kippurim • Day of Atonement

Photos and Videos

Men and a boy wearing prayer shawls pray in a synagogue on Yom Kippur in New York's Lower East Side around 1900, some covering their faces and holding prayer books.

Group of Jewish priests, all named Cohen, stand closely together on the deck of the S.S. Finland, wearing prayer shawls and reading from books during Yom Kippur ceremonies in 1920.

Jewish men wearing kippahs pray from books at the tomb of Rabbi Yehuda Bar Ilai in Safed, Israel, with Hebrew text visible on a curtain in the background.

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