At sundown this evening observing Jews in every part of the world where Jews live will usher in the New Year 5693 at special Rosh Hashanah services.
Rosh Hashanah is observed on Saturday and Sunday, October 1st and 2nd, while Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is observed on Monday, October 10th.
The United States Army and Navy Departments have granted furloughs to Jewish soldiers and sailors to enable them to observe the High Holy Days, leave beginning yesterday and concluding on October 4th, and again from Saturday, October 8th to Wednesday, October 12th.
Special High Holy Day services for young people will be held throughout the country under the auspices of the Jewish Community Centers and the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A’s.
In New York City, services will be held in many of the 91 institutions affiliated with the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society will conduct services for Jewish immigrants detained at Ellis Island. It will also conduct services for Jewish unemployed and homeless who are being fed and sheltered by the Society.
Jewish pupils will be permitted this year for the first time to absent themselves from the Milwaukee Public Schools during the Holy Days without incurring any penalty, according to a decision of the Instruction Committee of the School Board.
The New Year will usher in for Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, the 108th year of its existence. The Congregation is the second oldest in New York, having been founded in 1825.
A Rosh Hashanah plea to Jewish parents to continue the religious education of their children notwithstanding the hard times has been issued by the Jewish Education Association of New York above the signatures of Israel Unterberg, President of the organization; Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Samuel Rottenberg and Jacob Wener, Vice-Presidents, and Bernard Semel, Honorary Secretary.
The statement contains the warning that many of the Talmud Torahs, among them the largest and oldest, are facing a total shut-down, and the parents are exhorted to pay tuition for their children in accordance with what is described as the “immemorial and noble Jewish custom.”
Funeral services were held in Union City, N. J., for former Assemblyman Louis Silver.
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