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...attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant and next door to a cheap cinema? for the opening of the high holy day, Rosh Hashana (Sept. 25). Already in place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They were painted in true fresco by A. (for Alexander) Raymond Katz, 40, a Hungarian-born Jew who leads a Jewish art movement in the U. S. with the Hebrew alphabet...
Thus Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement which culminates the ten penitential days after Rosh Hashanah (New Year). Yom Kippur falls next on Oct. 7. Last week U. S. Christians were pondering a proposal that they join with 4,000,000 U. S. Jews in celebrating this high holy day. Proposer: Rev. Charles D. Brodhead of Bethlehem, Pa., who said, "In this period of widespread anti-Semitic pressure it would be a timely witness to our common religious bond with...
...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...