Word: yom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sundown last week, Kol Nidre, the mournful prayer-hymn in which good Jews ask God to release them from unfulfilled vows, throbbed in countless synagogues. It was the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement dedicated to fasting and turning toward God. At Yom Kippur's sunset, a blast on the shofar (ram's horn) brought to a close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen...
...silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized, for Jews in Jerusalem as well as for Jews the world over, the end of Judaism's most solemn ten-day period of penitence...
With Rosh Hashonah last fortnight began the Jewish new year, according to the Jewish calendar the 5,698th since the Creation. For Orthodox Jews Yom Kippur, the last 24 hours of the ten-day observance, was a Day of Atonement, the only one of the year on which Mosaic law prescribes abstention from food and drink. Not comparable to any Christian celebration, Yom Kippur meant prostrations for the devout, an effort at self-purification based upon the concept that God was casting up for the year his accounts of the sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish...
Meantime Mr. Willever added the following categories: Father's Day. Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Bon Voyage, Yom. Kippur. There are various kinds of congratulatory Western Union telegrams: on Engagement, Promotion, Election, Success of Artist, Making a Speech, Wedding Anniversary, Opening a New Store. Form telegrams can be sent upon ascending Pike's Peak. Mr. Willever is preparing similar ones for Niagara Falls and Atlantic City. Brand new are Western Union "Kiddiegrams," to be sent to children. Samples from this variegated service...
...solemnity and spirituality of Yom Kippur strengthen all friendship...