Word: hashonah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Semitic tribal chief. Sunset falls. The rabbi picks up a yellowed ram's horn and tongues it into the cadences of the TEKIAH. It is the call to Jews, their reminder that God created the world out of a void and howling darkness 5,689 years ago. Rosh Hashonah, the New Year, opens; the Book of Life is closed upon the passed year...
Although the year has been so good to Jews there are private sins and old religious woes to weep over. And this the communicants will do ten days after Rosh Hashonah -on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), which begins at sunset Sept. 23. It is a vigil of fasting and repentance, to be concluded with the cry: "May he who maketh peace in his high places, make peace for us and for all Israel; and say ye, Amen...
Which Jew, by his services to the U. S., deserves to be honored with a statue, was the question that the Jewish Tribune put to its readers last Rosh Hashonah (TIME, Oct. 3). Last week came the decision-the late Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile...
...Anshe Ernes Congregation, Chicago, was to broadcast (through the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ) music, chanting, ram's horning and sermons of its Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New Year's) services this week. ¶The Jewish Tribune, weekly magazine, learned in editorials, popular in text, in its Rosh Hashonah number issued last week, started a contest among its readers to decide "which Jew, by his service to America, deserves to be honored with a statue. ... No Jew has been nationally honored by the community for his services to America. In New York City, the Jews number about...
Employes will get full pay for these holidays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day; half pay "for Election Day; nothing for Passover, Rosh Hashonah, Yom Kippur or Columbus...