Word: yom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, many a Manhattan Jew was troubled last week when he closed his shop for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In the last fortnight a handful of Jews in the German district of Yorkville had reported defacement of their store windows. And week ago the Jewish owners of a German cinema in the same section had found four dread swastikas scratched in their box-office windows...
From sundown to sundown the devout turned their talus-wrapped shoulders and bowed heads toward the East in dutiful prayer. Then, as the ram's horn sounded Yom Kippur's end, Yorkville Jews scurried back to their stores for reassurance. On the front windows of more than 50 of them they found scratched in six-inch letters the word...
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...
...Yom Kippur (Day of Atone-ment), Jewish holiday...
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...