Kol Nidre: what Wikipedia removed
Kol Nidre is the Aramaic declaration that opens Yom Kippur services in the synagogue. In 2005 the opening said the prayer has often been employed out of context by anti-Semites to support their claims about Jews. Today that passage is gone from the opening, though antisemitism survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns Kol Nidre’s place in Jewish liturgy, not that antisemites have historically used the prayer out of context to attack Jews.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- A note crediting the 1906 public-domain Jewish Encyclopedia as a source is gone from the opening.
- A sentence clarifying the prayer is written in Aramaic, not Hebrew, is gone from the opening, though this detail appears elsewhere today.
- The sentence describing antisemites using Kol Nidre out of context to support false claims about Jews is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17880723):
( The following has been imported from the 1906 public domain “Jewish Encyclopedia”. It already has been edited and Wikified, but does not yet incorporate modern scholarship. Please help by modifying as needed. ) Kol Nidre (ashk.) or Kal nidré (sef.) is a Jewish prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on Yom Kippur , the Day of Atonement. It is written in Aramaic , not Hebrew . Its name is taken from the opening words, meaning “All vows”. “Kol Nidre” has had an eventful history, both in itself and in its influence on the legal status of the Jews. Introduced into the liturgy despite the opposition of some rabbinic authorities, attacked in the course of time by …
2025 (revision 1279637865):
Recitation that precedes Yom Kippur service For other uses, see Kol Nidre (disambiguation) . Kol nidre in an illuminated machzor from Worms (c. 1280). MS Kaufmann A 388 (f. 54v), copied by Eliezer ben Elijah haLevi Shevet-Sofer. Kol Nidre / ˈ k ɔː l n ɪ ˈ d r eɪ / (also known as Kol Nidrei or Kol Nidrey ; Aramaic : כָּל נִדְרֵי kāl niḏrē ) is an Aramaic declaration which begins Yom Kippur services in the synagogue . Strictly speaking, it is not a prayer, even though it is commonly spoken of as if it were a prayer. This declaration and its ceremonial accompaniment have been charged with emotional undertones since the medieval period , creating a dramatic introduction to Yom Kippur on what is …
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