Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-02
YOM k|PPUR HERE
WITH FASTING AND
FEARFUL PRAYERS
All Israel Today Devoutly OBJ
serves Hottest of Its
Holy Days.
THEATRES AND HALLS ARE
TURNED INTO SYNAGOGUES
AtOnement Fast Began at Sum
set Yesterday-Ends
Tonight.

Until shutdown today every devout
Hebrew is celebrating Yom Kippur, the
hottest of Jewish holy days. The OBJ
servance of the Day of Atonement be-
gan last night at sundown. A con-
tinuous series of services in all the
local synagogues is being held. Many
balls and amusement places have been
turned into temporary s~ynagogues to
accommodate the worshipers today, for
there is not enough room for all those
who observe Yom Kippur in the regu-
lar places of worship.
An unusual quiet is noticeable in the
Jewish districts. The attendance in the
schools in the Jewish districts Is cut
in half. Smoking. writing or even
reading d newspaper is prohibited on
this hottest of fast days, and any n
owe 10 years of age who does not
spend the day in a synagogue is open
to suspicion of eating or drinking.
The services in the Temple BNai
Jeshurun at $3.50 and $3.50 today, will be
conducted by Rabbi Solomon roster
and RaDoi Emeritus Joseph Leucht,
with the dSSlSldilNt VI ohtO ~
Sokolsky.
At the Synagogue oheb Shalom the
services are conducted by Rabbi
Charles /. Hoffman and Cantor Kew,
Max Helfere, commencing at 9 a. m.
Rabbi julius Silberfeld conducts the
services In the congregation B'Nai
Abraham.
In all the orthodox s%ynagogues the
% u n NJ and
continued without interruption until
evening. Cantor Rev. Elias Zanitsky
lead in the congregation Anshe Russia.
Rabbi Hyman S. Brodsky delivered
a discourse. At the Adeth Y'Israel the
cantor is the Rev. p. Gladstone, who
lead the services with Rabbi Max
Radin. Rabbi Aaron A. Cohen lead
at the Anshe Warsaw, and Rabbi Baer
Hailperin at the Synagogue Mishnayes.
A marked quiet reigns in all the sec
lions of the city which are populated
by Jews, or rather depopulated, be-
cause everybody is in h sy~nagogues,
and as there are not enough ~synagogues
to accommodate the whole community,
many halls have been urned into
places of worship. All business places
are closed, Jewish employees are missed
Dy Their ltiloW WI hiiiti oho pHS ~
tendance in many schools is greatly
depleted. If any Jew over the age of
thirteen years Is found at home instead
of In, the ~synagogues he lays himself
open to the suspicion that he has been
eating and so violating the greatest
sacrifice of the day, which demands
thai he fast for twenty-four hours, not
permitting a drop of water to touch
his lips. Besides this the usual Sab
bath restrictions apply-no smoking,
writing or ever reading a newspaper.
A contrast TO this Is the Feast of
Tabernacles, or Succoth, beginning
next Friday evening and continuing
seven days. 1t is a week of rejoicing
akin to the American Thanksgiving
day. The devout Jew builds himself a
hut or booth entirely covered over with
leaves and branches, where he spends
the seven days as a reminder that the
children of Israel dwelt thus when God
led them out of Egypt. 1t is also the
harvest time, when the fruit of the field
Is gathered In and services held offering
thanksgiving prayer for Gods bounty.
The last day marks the close of the
holy days of early autumn and is the
most joyous of all, as implied by its
name, "Simchath Torah, The Rejoic-
ing in the Law"