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...Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
...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...
...Christian Century, able interdenominational weekly, found the idea good, chiefly because Yom Kippur "emphasized the sense of individual sin which contributed to and merged with the sins of the nation. The analogy with our present economic and cultural plight is thus complete. Through our sense of guilt, as individuals and as a nation, we would . . . devote a day to spiritual stock-taking." Furthermore, declared The Christian Century, "the day does not lend itself to commercialization as do Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving...
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...