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Almost a Century Old

August 21, 1934
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In 1848, Isaac Vallentine, English journalist, published “The Hebrew Almanack and Calendar,” containing a table of holy days and fasts for the ensuing twenty-five years. This has been continued annually up to the present time, and has become the communal pocket calendar.

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