Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, will be ushered in Sunday at sundown at services in synagogues throughout the world with the traditional chanting of the Kol Nidrei service to be followed on Monday with memorial services for the dead and with prayers for peace and the welfare of humanity.
In a special Yom Kippur message, the American Zionist Council today called upon the Jews in the United States “to remain steadfast in their determination that Jerusalem, the City of Zion, be not separated from the state of Israel.” Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Council, pointed out that it was less than a year ago that the Jews of Jerusalem were under siege and attack, waging their battle for survival “on those streets, hills and terraces which the U.N. Conciliation Commission would now out off from the state of Israel and establish under alien rule.”
No displaced Jews will land in New York on Yom Kippur but the United Service for New Americans and HIAS have made arrangements for services to be conducted for some 2,000 newly-arrived Jewish refugees temporarily sheltered by these organizations. Special dinners will be served them Monday evening at the expiration of the Yom Kippur fast.
HIAS officials announced today that 2,600 displaced Jews are expected to arrive in the United States from Germany during the month of October. They will be admitted under the provisions of the DP Act of 1948.
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