Yes, it is.
I did it in Jerusalem a couple of college years.Answer:Jewish law forbids it. Handling fire is not permitted on Yom Kippur.
Jews don't have churches - they have synagogues, and yes, they go to synagogue during Yom Kippur.
No
Yes, but it's only six days, since swimming isn't permitted for Jews on four of the ten days. Those four are the two days of Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat, and Yom Kippur.
The book of Yonah (Jonah) is read during Mincha (the afternoon prayers) of Yom Kippur.
The pronounciation of yom kippur is yum-kipp-her.
Yom Kippur
Jewish Mexicans do Yom Kippur.
The Day of Atonement is Yom Kippur (Leviticus ch.23). This is the holiest day in Judaism and the day where even secular Jews attend synagogue. On Yom Kippur, Jewish people fast from all food and drinks for a complete 25hrs, starting just before sunset the previous day.
Yom Kippur is not a person or a country, it is a holiday. The Egyptians chose to invade Israel on Yom Kippur because of its solemnity. They expected the Israelis to be unprepared on Yom Kippur, which was indeed the case.
First, we want to make sure that you don't think that Yom Kippur is a month. Yom Kippur is a single day, in the Hebrew month of Tishrei. Elul (אלול) is the month preceding Tishrei and all the days in it, including Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur is from the Torah (Leviticus ch.23).