Jewish seamen and marines participating in NATO exercises in the North Sea and in the U.S. Marine Corps’ operation in the Caribbean Sea will be among the 150,000 Jews in the U.S. Armed Forces who will assemble for Rosh Hashanah services conducted by Jewish chaplains on four continents this Friday evening and Saturday and Sunday. Services on shipboard and in the 600 camps, hospitals and veterans institutions in the U.S. and in many countries throughout the world were arranged by the National Jewish Welfare Board, through its Armed Services Committee.
In New York, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society will conduct two sets of services–one at the synagogue at the HIAS shelter for several hundred recent immigrants including some temporary residents at the shelter, and the other on Ellis Island where a number of Jewish immigrants are being held pending completion of government formalities.
The Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York has made arrangements for High Holiday services in hospitals, community centers, homes for the aged and other welfare institutions affiliated with the Federation. It will also provide service for Jewish inmates of prisons and jails and for children in child care institutions. More than 500 deaf persons from Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, upper New York State and New York City are expected to attend two lip-reading and sign language services sponsored by the Federation-affiliated Jewish Society for the Deaf.
Vice President Alben W. Barkley and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman will head a long list of American notables who will visit synagogues during Rosh Hashanah in behalf of the Israel bond drive. In New York over 100 synagogues plan to promote bond sales during the holidays.
Some 650 Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative synagogues in the metropolitan New York area have scheduled appeals from their pulpits for support of the United Jewish Appeal during the holidays. The New York U.J.A. has received a cable from Israeli Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog appealing to New York Jews to increase their support of the U.J.A.
The Zionist Organization of America plans to hold rallies in its 800 districts throughout the country during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur rededicating its membership to a program of economic and cultural aid to Israel and to strengthening the organization.
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