(Communication to the Edutir)
Sir:
In behalf of the Jewish employees of the New York Post Office, I am desirous of taking up a very important matter in regard to the yearly problem for them to be excused from duty so that they may appropriately observe our High Holy Days, September 27 and 28 and October 6. This difflculty might be removed and the sanetion given by the Post Office Department without inconvenience and embarrassment, if the senders of the Jewish New Year’s greetings cards would mail them no later than September 20. using the larger greeting cards and envelopes.
We are desirous of suggesting to our people that they mail their New Year’s greetings beginning September first and they should procure the larger cards and envelopes–the slogan “Mail Early” is what we want to carry to them.
Our Postmaster, the Hon. John J. Kiely, as cooperated with us in the past and will again do so.
Louis Blumberg, President Jewish Postal Workers
Welfare League, New York, Aug. 18, 1927
A new translation of the Hebrew Bible has just been completed and will be published shortly. The editor is Dr. J. M. Powis Smith of Chicago, and collaborators are Prof. T. J. Meek of the University of Toronto: Alexander Gordon. of MeGill University, Montreal, and Leroy Waterman, University of Michigan.
The new version abounds in modern colloquialisms and the reason ror the translation is given as “the Hebrew verbosity” of the King James version. In one instance, however, the scholars found present-day brevity inadequate. The ten-word description of the world’s creation having been expanded to forty-nine words, including a compound sentence, follows:
“When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth being a desolate mass with darkness covering the abyss and the spirit of God hovering over the waters, then God said: Let there be light’: and God saw that the light was good and God was pleased.”
Dr. Edwin Katskee resigned yesterday as an interne at Kings County Hospital. Dr. Katskee was one of the internes who charged that they had been hazed because they were Jews. It was denied that Dr. Katskee’s resignation had any connection with the hazing. He said he had had an offer of a position in Omaba.
Rabbi Louis Gross, who presented to Mayor Walker the charges of hazing. said that Dr. Katskee’s resignation had no connection with any trouble in the hospital.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
