Word: rosh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith, William Allen White, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, and many...
Millions throughout the world abstained from work, pleasure, food; worshipped the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob; prepared to celebrate the high holy days of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Shmimi Atzereh; greeted the year 5685. Most of them were in the U. S.-Israelites of the circumcision. They recalled the days when Moses and Aaron and Joshua would say unto the twelve tribes-: "Thus saith the Lord...
...Ambassador Houghton, home on vacation from Berlin, called at the White House, told the President and the press that he had great hopes of the Experts' Plan. ¶President Coolidge gave out in advance a message to the Jews of the country in regard to the celebration of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, on Sept. 28. Said he of the Jews of America: "In a nation whose laws know no favored race or group or religion, they have won their way because they have proved their genius for fine coÖperation in (the common interest...
From London the Chief Rabbi* issued a warning to all Jews in a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year, Sept. 10 and 11) message...