The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-04
FAST AND PRAYER ENDED
Solemn Observation by Hebrews of
the Day of AtOnement.
Impressive Ceremonies ut the Va
rious SynagoEues-Servic mt the
Eighth street TcmDle-An Interest
ing Address Relative to the Occn-
sion Delivered by Simon Wolf.


ceremonial of the ten days New Year OBJ
seryance. On Rosh Hashanah, or New
Year Day, praise and prayer were OBJ
served, but without affiction of the flesh
In the ten days which followed the great
book was opened for charges, and the
1ate OF the pious was therein inscribed.
With the end of the day of Yom Kippur
the register is closed and sealed with what
is written. For Rosh Hashanah the de-
voices greet each other with Chaihiooh
Tovoh," meaning, may you have a good
inscription" But on the last day of the
festival, Yom Kippur the greeting
changes to "Chatimoh Tovoh"-"a good
SEAL
The services which were held yesterday
morning at the various Jewish temples is
termed the Shachvich The Torah, or
scroll, was read as part of the ceremonies,
which lasted from early morning until
about 1890 o'clock. The Service of Mu-
soph followed from II o'clock until 1870 in
the afternoon. Afterward the service OF
the Minchah occupied the time until the
closing hour, when the ceremony of Nee
lob superseded and was continued until
three stars were out At the Eighth
Street Temple the Musoph was the prin-
cipal observance of the day.
These services were performed by Rabbi
S. Stern. Simon Wolf, who mas been in
the habit of delivering an Atonement Day
address for the past two or three years,
said in the course of his remarks:
THE Jews of the world in the year
closing have had severe tasks set for
them. Especially is this true in Euro
pean countries. In Gallicia, province of
Austria, the condition of our coreligion-
lists has been most distressing. indeed re-
voting. Nearly million of people have
been subjected to the most trying and ia
natical persecution. Their mental. moral.
physical and economic condition is far
below par, added to which has been the
terrorizing influence inspired and famed
into lurid flames by a fanatical popula-
ton that looks upon every Jew as an
alien and an outcast.
ut can easily be seen that under such
circumstances, the Jew as a man falls be-
low the standard, and is compelled to seek
by devious ways means of livelihood, ana
to shelter himself in every way for the
protection of his own life and those endear-
ed TO him, and thus the reports that ema-
nate from Government officials as 10 the
degraded condition Of the Jews has its or
igin il and is traceable 10 the Government
itself, which denies to so many of its sons
the right not only to live, but the right
to enjoy life and all that is implied in the
term. The condition in Gallicia has be-
come So intolerable that the Jews of the
world have been appealed TO and commit
tees have been formed in Europe as well
as in this country TO create public SEN
timent that shall stop this heartless per-
secution. and at the same time strengthen
the hands of the few noble men and wom-
en- of Galiicia in educating and fostering
these unfortunate people and to rescue
their coreligionists from pauperism and
dependency, SO that they can become self
sustaining and workers in the great bee
hive of humanity.
And so Roumania, which had been
promised under the Berlin Treaty a
wider scope of citizenship, and whose
horizon seemed illumined by modern civ
ilization. has lapsed into a state of bar
barism that borders on the incredible.
Men. women. and children OF that land
have been driven forth like cattle, ire
spective of their standing and their
worth. and are battling now on the ocean
that separates Europe from this country,
wandering all over Europe and the Uni
ted States. seeking homes and shelter
and trying to reinstate themselves
among mankind. These Roumanians are
not paupers, they are not peddlers. The
bulk of them are mechanics, artisans,
men who have earned their own living /
and are an honor to their race and man
kind The portion of them that will be |
domiciIed in our own land will be no !
menace. They will not destroy the Ia |
boring mans union, and they will not |
become z charge upon their coreligioa- !
lists. All they need at the inception is |
q helping hand until they become as
simulated, acquire the language of their !
new homes. and start out once more men I!
and women anxious TO support them |
selves and be of credit to their race
Instances of sporadic and local mani
festations of the anti-Semitic feeling crop |
out here and there even in the United |
States, but they are very few, and thank |
heaven that the Government and the |
States in their official capacity Of the ma |
ton have no concern therein and the |
United States is still, as it has been ever |
since its creation, the home Of the refugee |
and the harbor of joy to each and every |
one who discharges the sacred duties of |
incident to the highest appre- |
citation OF true Americanism.
THE fearful food and devastating storm |
which swept Galveston and other portions |
Of Texas almost from its mornings. ap- |
Deals to US in no uncertain sound. We have |
to a very limited degree, thank heaven |
seen in our own city wind storms, and |
we thought ourselves very badly abused, |
yet how tame and insignificant when COM
pared with this greatest of all disasters |
in the history of the United States.
Nothing that I can remember brings to |
our Imagination so wildly the awful days |
and nights of food and storm as those de-
scribed by Bulwer Lytton in the Last
Days of Pompeii." Husbands and sons.
fathers and brothers, wives mothers. and
fact, all shades and all nation
alities were swept into seething caldron
Of death and destruction, and the wreck
age still visible tells tale of woe and
disaster unparalleled, and out of the
chaos created by the havoc of the ele-
ments there has arisen a spirit of human
that also stands without a par
allel. and almost reconcles one to this
great disaster for 1t brings forth a cor
responding amount of love and Kindness.
which otherwise would lie dormant
While from all parts of the United States
this hand of help and sympathy had been
1t is gladstone to know that
has not been in the rear, and
TO know that the members of this con-
gregation have not only contributed as
citizens. as Jews. as members of general
and thus have duplicated
and quadrupled our gifts Of love and SYM
pathy but we have not done enough. |
More must be done, and for some time to
come.
While We win no doubt discharge every
luty incumbent upon us. international and
we must not forget our local
needs. The United Hebrew charities of
Washington has shown wide and intelll-
gent grasp of what is best in the field of
.harity, what it means In it's true signif-
,ance, not to degrade. but TO elevate and
o instill into each and every recipient the
ceiling OF manhood. The association dia
'ast amount of good during thu past year
{ could have done much more had its ex-
,hequer permitted IT. While no worthy
,ase has been denied aid and assistance |