Yom Kippur services will be held, as were Rosh Hashanah services, in Vietnam and at more than 700 other foreign and domestic military installations, aboard Army transports and Navy vessels on the high seas, and at Veterans Administration Hospitals, it was announced by Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow, spiritual leader of Temple Beth El, Cedarhurst, N.Y., and chairman of the National Jewish Welfare Board’s Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy. Rabbi Sandrow also announced that where possible, leave was granted to men in the armed forces to travel home for the holidays. Others were offered home hospitality in local communities.
On Thursday, during the 10 days of repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the major Jewish women’s international organizations –WIZO, Moetzet Hapoalot/Pioneer Women, International Council of Jewish Women, Religious Women Mizrachi and Hadassah–will observe a World Day of Intercession on behalf of Soviet Jewry, particularly the women which include Silva Zalmanson Kuznetsov, Ruth Alexandrovich and Raiza Palatnik. Meanwhile, national and regional Jewish organizations announced that more than one million Rosh Hashanah greetings were sent to Soviet Jews this year.
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were provided with special arrangements to celebrate the High Holy Days through the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies agency network serving the New York metropolitan area. In a message addressed to the Jewish community, Lawrence B. Butten-wieser, Federation president, expressed the hope that the New Year would be. “A year in which each of us undertakes an intensified personal commitment to the principles of concern and compassion of our fellow man which represents the highest ideals of our Judaic tradition.
The New York Society for the Deaf held services in its headquarters in the Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA with Rabbi David Rabinowitz, the only deaf ordained rabbi in the United States, conducting services. A choir interpreted in sign language the musical portions of the service. The Hebrew Educational Society opened its facilities for the High Holidays to the Brooklyn Hebrew Association for the Deaf, the only Jewish deaf society in Brooklyn with the largest and oldest congregation for the deaf in the world. The Jewish Braille Institute provided Braille prayer books for blind worshippers in their home congregations.
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