Yom Kippur fasting Jewish high holiday

Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, ahead of Yom Kippur in Jerusalem's Old City. Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown Friday, is the holiest of Jewish holidays, when observant Jews atone for the sins of the last year.

( Darren Whiteside / Reuters / September 15, 2010 )

Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, ahead of Yom Kippur in Jerusalem's Old City. Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown Friday, is the holiest of Jewish holidays, when observant Jews atone for the sins of the last year.

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