Word: hashana
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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...
Millions throughout the world abstained from work, pleasure, food; worshipped the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob; prepared to celebrate the high holy days of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Shmimi Atzereh; greeted the year 5685. Most of them were in the U. S.-Israelites of the circumcision. They recalled the days when Moses and Aaron and Joshua would say unto the twelve tribes-: "Thus saith the Lord...
...Houghton, home on vacation from Berlin, called at the White House, told the President and the press that he had great hopes of the Experts' Plan. ¶President Coolidge gave out in advance a message to the Jews of the country in regard to the celebration of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, on Sept. 28. Said he of the Jews of America: "In a nation whose laws know no favored race or group or religion, they have won their way because they have proved their genius for fine coÖperation in (the common interest." ¶The "White...