32 nations back Judaism’s Yom Kippur as UN holiday

Published July 30, 2014 10:45pm ET



UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty-two countries have written to a U.N. General Assembly committee asking the United Nations to recognize Judaism’s holiest day, Yom Kippur, as an official holiday.

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