32 nations ask UN to add Yom Kippur to calendar

Greg Marcus was in synagogue on Yom Kippur about a decade ago, contemplating his life as the lengthy Day of Atonement services moved into the mid-afternoon. A product manager for a biotech firm, he was working 90-hour weeks and his life seemed out ...

Israel's many wars have many names. The War for Independence (1948). The Six Day War (1967). The Yom Kippur War (1973). The First Lebanon War (1982-1985). The Second Lebanon War (2006). The Gaza

In the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, university studies in Israel were suspended, since most of the staff and students had been called up. During the hiatus, I found a job at a company called Elbit Computers, a subsidiary of Control Data ...

Does Secretary of State Kerry follow the Kissinger approach? A reminder from Yom Kippur War "Kissinger assumed that Israel would win quickly, and he opposed giving it major support that could make its victory too one-sided. "The best result," ...

The pilotless airplanes were first devised for Israeli raids as long ago as the Yom Kippur War in 1973 but they are now capturing the world from a different angle VIEW GALLERY These incredible pictures taken by drones offer us a new ...

Ever since the oil crisis of 1973, when oil prices nearly quadrupled as a result of an OPEC embargo following the Yom Kippur War, there has been a ban on U.S. crude oil exports. But that may change. In two rulings, yet to be confirmed, the U.S.

Synagogues, yeshivas and religious communities of all types around the country conducted the kabbalistic Yom Kippur Katan prayer service on Thursday afternoon, in accordance with the requests

How Netanyahu got snookered Benjamin Netanyahu isn't the brightest bulb on the Hanukkah bush, but that doesn't explain why he concluded that he could benefit himself and Israel by launching another assault on Gaza, the third in six years. ...

In her book "The March of Folly," Barbara Tuchman analyzed the diplomatic and strategic mistakes made by the United States during the Vietnam War. If she were still alive today, President Barack Obama's and Secretary of State John Kerry's policy ...