Word: hashanah
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...this week, as they have for thousands of years, Jews prayed to the God of their fathers. It was the most dreadful and solemn day of the solemn and dreadful Jewish Year-Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. During the ten-day period of penitence beginning with Rosh Hashanah, tradition teaches, each man's deeds are judged in heaven, to be punished or rewarded in the year ahead...
...over the world next week, the ram's horns of Rosh Hashanah (beginning of the New Year) will call faithful Jews to the Ten Days of Penitence that end with Yom Kippur. No prayers will be more fervent than those from the 80-odd ex-Catholics of San Nicandro, Italy...
Across the narrow waters of the Öre Sund word came to Sweden last week that 1,800 Gestapomen, sent to Copenhagen specially for the job, had broken into Jewish homes and synagogues during Rosh Hashanah, arresting most of Denmark's 10,000 Jews. The reports said the Germans planned to ship their prisoners to the charnel houses of Poland...
...assign civilian rabbis for High Holy Day services (Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur) and part-time work at stations where no Jewish chaplain is available...
Disclaiming some Jewish ritual, notably Rosh Hashanah (New Year), Boake Carter observes Saturday as the Sabbath and celebrates the Passover. He eats nothing that is not kosher, though he prefers to call it "Biblically cooked." When he was studying the rules that govern his diet, he made a trip to Manhattan's aquarium and "checked on the habits of forbidden lobsters, crabs and oysters...