New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-20
HEBREWS USE CHURCHES
They Are Hired from Christians TOR
HOIid0H Celebrations.


/ In connection with the observance this week and
next OF the Jewish New Year holidays and the Day
OF Atonement or YOm Kippur. keen interest -
being aroused IN the largely Increased use for the
purpose Of Christian churches Newt ork's hVo
hundred thousand Jews have long made use OF I'M
provised synagogues for their great festivals This
! year as heretofore services will b. held n all
kinds Of halls and IN theatres But the number %
Congregational. Methodist. Baptist and OH
houses OF Christian worship used in this city fo-
services on the holidays Of the beginning OF ths
Jewish year 5.ss4 will considerably exceed the
Der used for this purpose IN any preceding one.
They will be used by congregations or societies.
differing from the larger ones that sysagogues
In that they a-e poorer and less inh1enzaI. and
hold meetings infreqUently.
The Jewish services are 70 be held on Tuesday
their New Years Day and Saturday the Fast OK
Gedaiah. OF this week. and Friday OF next
week. ths Day Of Atonement. Christian services
in these churches on Sundays and other days Will
take place as usual For the interesting Jewish
services. foreign born and foreign Favored an ez-
remely significant phase OF the cosmopolitan
nature Of New-YOrk Hfe few changes are made.
and those the simplest Great Efforts are made 20
have the music Of the best This use OF the Chris
tian churches is regarded a striking evidence OF
religious liberation both sides bv most lew.
and Christians. but some orthodox Hebrews ara
disposed to resent the extent which the practice
IS growing. Says one: II DONE Ike this thing T.
- All Hght IN case Of fire Ike disaster 70 tls,
one another's churches but our In herffsd baar &c,
SO entirely different from the Christian religion
mat IL seems wrong use their houses OF -
mp Or course. We would not hold orr services I'm
Episcopal or Roman Catholic churches beca-,s.
the presence OF the cruelty would bs 60 t,.,r1 -.
or harmony with our religion
ue NeV- j. > stone. whose church the Meth
4iSe Episcopal Church Of the Saviour In East Ons-
AII'1' u-and-ninth-st. between Madison and ParI,
aVes. IL one Of those 70 be used bv Jews vv.I,o,
this use Of the churches because OF lie si.-i -.
existence OF true fraternaI feeling ssYo1 see d. 80
puts IT, In the old country the lew VS. bc,,,,,r
NiO On MS side. he looked on Jesus IN times gone
Dy as an incarnate fend To-day that ia an
changed Jewish rabbi told me the other da,y
That In the Sunday school class OF vourq ro,vtgl,
women which he taught the Sermon on the Mount
was studied so thoroughly Is the Jew changing
Ms a'ueude mat he Is realizing that Jesus IL not
dlVine. was the MODEST Jew that ever lived Per-
sOnaly. i am very glad to see the hand OF fst-
Io"ship stretched out toward the Jewish worship
pers had Jews occupy my church at this period
last year. and 1 was greatly impressed BY their
zeal"
Among the other churches that VIII 10 11sed by-
the Jews on the upper East Side are Dr. John L
CamphelFs church. the Lexington Avenue Baptist
at e-hundred-and-el eventh-st. and lexington
ave. and the Pilgrim Congregational Church at
Observation-Disclosures y-first-st and AIadfsou-ave
In which the Congregation Beth Aaron Will wor-
ship
Ia Mr.. Moore's church the congregation that VIII
worship Is Sherfs Bnet Kishenef. Its surplus over
a nr-
pected that the receipts from the sale OF there
will be S.lOo. and tho expenses for renting tho
church and for the music and the pay OF the rabbi
800 leaving $40 balance. The RABBIT at this church
VIII be the Rev. ). Rvenson. who has come recently
from Russia One OF the members OF this congre-
cation declared that the poorer Jews had to use
some temporary synagogues. Down at OF thu
big synasOsues." ne said 1T would cost you 81
or H5 for pew for those three days 50 for q
sitting. Here you get good for 81 On
ne de- I Of ar Ieag MIR
gregatiOns that Will worship. as going to
worship. In Christian churches. rented FOR these
three days" The Kishlnen incident VIII not afnsce
these Jewish holidays. far the non-Jswish
public will The Jews rsvivalisSs.
This season will seasons before It have
seen. many worshippers in synagog1es who do nOc
appear at all the rest or the year. Indeed. by a
conservative estimate, three-quarters OF the woT-
shippers at holiday Zine do 90 to the syna-,
gOgues the rest OF the year. ShOpkeeDers who ara
open on ordinary Saturdays keep shut New Year
week. The hundred more temporary worshipsl
places throughout the city viii be tanmed on thu
important feast DAYS SO that except Tor the nat
ural increase due 70 the increased population. nS
Nor on the Kishinefr and other jewish massaorss
will especial emphasis be laid at the services. In
there will be sIgpiications th1f similar dsssters
may not occur IN IN, year just starting. So too.
IN those churches where there are sermons. soms
az SreS S wes 0 mat befe hrT Fellow rso mis- s''
80, too no Jew will be unmindcuI this week oc
gone blythe year as Ra b6i 8IaxiriIan Heller says
!
the OF kiShlnen.' which he calls Of
the three years. 1851 and lSHl being the others.
when Russia. the great auac hrOni~n. stapfa Their
land OF One-hdlf of the worlds Jews, has easily
distanced . all the accumulated horrors u
every other parOXysm' RecOilactIcns OF these
things will make the holidays mean more 10 The
Jews. although. has been said. this viii not
show Outwarlly 70 any appre0 liable extent
Nor Will the ent renewed interest IA the Zion
/ ist movement have any effect on the O0servances.
II IL too entirely natonalisric rather tnan re-
HgiOus movement.
YOm Kippur Is the great Jewish holy day. Tbs
Jew fast. must abstain from work, must
to the synagogue. Intensely earnest are all tho
wOrshippers that day. matter how loosely
they observe religious customs the other days
/ OF the year And too. 10 - a day for going 20
I the synagogue with a clear conscience. for UacOnl-
ing reconcted with ones enemies and preparing
TO start the year clear
A wholly different feature OF the Jewish holidays
/ IS that OF display IN dress. one pdwU3r1ker. who
has largo place OF business in CfranJ-sr said the
/ other Iay that in the month preceding New Year
he found that six times the amount OF jeEeiry
taken out OF pawn By his customers thau I'm an
average month. The jewelry wanted ne
/ sumpd to wear I'm the synagogue.
a well known phil1nthrOpiC worker on the Fae.
Side himself orthodox jew. asked his
opinion this estimate. "Bu- in the ogue.''
ne replied. Il couldn't tel. I woulGu'y any
OF it