Word: rosh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Jimmy McLarnin last June. They signed for a return match. Scheduled for last fortnight, the fight was postponed by rain. Next day, Ross rested. McLarnin continued training. It rained again, caused another postponement. When rain caused a third postponement. Ross demanded a week's delay to celebrate Rosh haShanah. Last week both fighters resumed training, weighed in for the fourth time. Rain caused a fourth postponement. Two days later, on a cold cloudy evening, they climbed through the ropes of Madison Square Garden's Long Island City ring and finally began to fight. Anxious to see whether...
When the Court recessed last week after a fortnight of hearings, to permit Jewish jurors to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Government had concluded its case. It had tried to show that in 1930-31 several Moose charity balls were held throughout the land, the tickets to which entered purchasers in raffles for sizeable cash awards. During the two years $2,200,000 was taken in. Mooseheart (Ill.) orphanage, for whose benefit the balls were ostensibly staged, got $250,000. Of the remainder, some $400,000 went to promoters Bernard C. McGuire & Theodore G. Miller of the Moose "propagation Department...
...From Rosh Hashanah last fortnight until Yom Kippur last week, hundreds of thousands of Jews in Manhattan freed themselves from mundane cares, piously to pass the Jewish time of self-examination. God was balancing His books, which would be closed on the Day of Atonement. But in the teeming lower East Side one family sat in sorrow. They slit their garments. No chair or sofa would they sit on: only rough boxes. They were "sitting shivah"-mourning a dead daughter...
Sept. 23, 24?Rosh Hashona (Jewish New Year...
Orthodox rabbis with year-round synagog jobs last week started a selfish campaign against "mushroom" synagogs wherein a large part of Jewry celebrates Rosh Hashonah (New Year's day) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Those holidays respectively occur this year Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 2. Already many a rabbi without a post is canvassing unchurched Jews to buy seat tickets in his temporary schnl'. On the other hand the unchurched, after trying vainly to buy seats in regular synagogs, are seeking to hire rabbis to lead them in high holiday ritual. This is basically not very...