The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-09
JEWISH NEW YEAR
THR0NGs AT WORSHIP IN
SYNAG0GUES.
Incumbent Upon Hebrews to Go Daily
During Period of Penance and to
Adjust Difficulties and Pay Debts.

Each OF the eight and tenn
Piles In Newark were crowded by men and
women iast night at the services held for
Rosh-Ha-Shanah. the Jewish New Year,
which began at sunset. 1t is an important
festival day with the Jews, because 1t ush-
ers in the solemn Ten Days of Penitence,
during which the account books of heaven
are opened so the people may repent of
their sins and pray for pardon on the Day
OF Atonement. the greatest of all days In
the Jewish calendar-Wednesday. Septem-
Der San because, according to tradition
in the Talmud, 1t marks the opening of the
5,66Sth year since the creation Of the
earth.
During the ten days Of penance all Jews
are expected to attend a service each
morning in a synagogue, pay their debts.
settle any q~uarrels they have had the past
year, and after Yom Kippur. the Day of
A~tonement, begins the new year with
souls cleansed of sin. And during the sea-
sen. IL many have been lax in their re-
ligious duties. go to the synagogue to
pray with the faithful, who have obeyed
the Ten Commandments, which God, ac-
cording to tradion, gave on a slab of stone
to Moses on Mount Siani.
Morning services were held early today
in all the synagogues, and the shofar. or
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state that this is done to announce the
opening of a new year and TO remind the
people that God calls them to repent for
their sins during the penitential season.
Other reasons are given also for the blow
ing Of the shofar. 1t is conceded, however,
that the reason 1t Is blown at the close of
the solemn services are the same for Yom
Kippur-to announce the time of penance
and the Day of Atonement is ended and
the Book of Life is closed for the next
twelve months. The ~synagogues were well
attended from $50 and Z o'clock In the
morning up to noon. At the temple in
Washington. street, where Jews of the re-
formed faith. who comprise a large ma
jority of the business men and their fam
lilies. attend. services began at 9 o'clock,
and the Rev. Solomon Foster, the rabbi
of the congregation, preached, and the
Rev. Joseph Leucht, the rabbi emeritus,
read the Bible and offered prayer.
It is estimated that there are 10000 Jews
in Newark. Thousands of the adults were
at the New Years services in the syna-
gogues last night.
Last night in the large Jewish section of
the city west of High street and south of
South Orange avenue, where the bulk of the
Russian and Polish orthodox Jew popula-
ton is located. few stores of any kind
were open during the hour OF holding
services. Prince and Broome streets and
other streets that are always crowded with
men. women and children on Sunday
nights in summer were practically desert
ed, nearly all the adults being at the
s%ynagogues and the young children In
their homes.
The services at the Temple B'nai
%Jeshurun, In Washington street, where the
reformed Jews worship, were largely at
tended last night. The singing by the
cantor and by the choir was very good,
especially the chanting of the psalms by
the cantor. Rabbi Emeritus Joseph
| Leucht read from the Bible and offered
prayer. and Rabbi Solomon Foster, who
has active charge of the temple now,
preached an eloquent and instructive SER
mon on the influence of religion on peo-
pie and a community.
At the New Year services last night
at the B'nai Abraham Synagogue, on High
street. at which a large congregation was
present. A special singing program was
followed. one of the leading features being
a tenor solo. 20 Lord, My God. to Thee ]
Pray" sung by Morris Silberstein, assist
ant cantor of the synagogue. The Rev.
Julius Silberfeld. rabbi. delivered a short
address in English. in which he briefly re-
viewed the events of the past twelve
months from a Jewish standpoint, and ex-
horted his audience to try for greater
Kings during the next year.
IAdDDl (udTIeS L.. 11OlIuldn conducted the
service last night for his people, the Con-
gregation Oheb Shalom. in their brick syn
agogue In Bruce street, near Springfield
avenue, reading from the Bible and offer
ing prayer. Rabbi NJ. Helper was the
cantor. He and Rabbi Hoffman were
dressed In white gowns, with white CAPS
on their heads. The choir sang psalms.
The president and vice-president of the
congregation, who wore black clothes and
tall silk hats, were on the sanctuary plat
form with the rabbis.
There was a great crowd of Russian
Jews at last nights services In the Snya-
gogue Ansche Russia, in West Kinney
street. between Prince and Broome streets,
and hundreds could no1 get into the build
ing. The two long side galleries and the
one over the entrance, where a score Of
rows Of pews rise in tiers. were packed,
and the entrance vestlbule was crowded.
The many electric lights in the
illumined the interior. which is painted
very white. so that a visitor was i'm
pressed by its beauty.
Rabbi Hyman Brodsky. the pastor, and
Rabbi Elias Zanitsky. the cantor, wore
long gowns of white. and the leader of the
choir of sixteen voices. wore white also,
and the members Of the choir, who were
in the sanctuary with the rabbis. were
dressed like semiarians. with hat-top
black caps. The officers of the congrega-
ton wore tall silk hats As in all the
~synagogues of the orthodox Jews, the men
kept their hats on during the services.
Services lasted two hours asst night In
the Synagogue Agudas Achim in Bedford
street. Rabbi Max Rodin officiating and a
cantor chanting the Psalms. Rabbi Baer
Hallperin conducted the services at the
Synagogue Mishnayes in James street.
Rabbi Moses Adlerstem oficiated last night
at the service for the Congregation Rouse
of Arrow in Bedford street, and there was
a service at the Synagogue Elm Jacob In
Morton street also.
Thousands of New Years cards have
been mailed 10y Jewish men and women,
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