Word: yom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Jewish holiday, vigil of fasting and repentance. Oct. 15-Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes leaves New York on yacht lamara for two-month European cruise...
Three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 17), Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, their Day of Atonement. On the eve of Yom Kippur, in Massena. N. Y., Barbara Griffith, 4, disappeared. Her parents asked policemen to find her. At about this time, someone remembered the legend of the sacrifice. A State police trooper named H. M. McCann summoned Rabbi Berel Brennglass to headquarters where, in accordance with an arrangement previously made with Mayor W. Gilbert Hawes, he questioned the rabbi as follows...
...side of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, sole remnant of Solomon's Temple, and holiest place in the world of Jewry, several thousand ululating Jews, of both sexes, gathered last week. Separating Jews from Jewesses, as it is ordained, was a large screen. They were celebrating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement...
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...
...Rabbis attempted to make no "significant" statements this Yom Kippur. Ceremonies were more important than sermons. Jews had no great communal calamity to lament. Each turned inward in penitence, for a 24-hour examination of his conscience...