The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-11
HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR JEWS
 WILL BEGIN THIS EVENING

With the going down of the sun this evening the Jewish year 56z2 will take dts place in history and the happy New Year 5673 will be ushered ir with joy and gladness mingled witt penitence and prayer Rosh Hashonah gins a. series Of feastS and lasts thai will be ffttingly observed by the Jew ish population Of this city, anc throughout the world. Orthodox Jews will devote two days to the ce1ebra- .tion of Rosh Hashonah but the re- formed Jews will observe only one day ending at sundown tomorrow.
 The Hebrew year just closed was an ordinary perfect year of 355 days, but the year 5673 will be an emboIisnic perfect year Of 5S5 days The month Tisri, of which tomorrow will be the Hr:t, but Tfsri is the first ecolesiati- cal month. Three rays after New Year comes the Fast of Guadaliah. and six days later comes the Fast of Expfation or Tom Kfppur, the most sacred of aM Jewish holy days.
 The one or two days of sRosh Has honah beginning at sundown tonight will be a general holiday for all of the Hebrew faith In New York, London and other important centers of Jewish Jewish labor is largely employed will come to a standstiIl, and throughout the month of September, and the early part of October the output of clothing and garment factories will be greatly reduced. The postmen of the big cit ies will stagger under immense loads of New Year cards.
 It is the belief of orthodox Jews that on Rosh Hashonan the books in which the fates of the righteous and open for new entries, and that the pen ftential ten days following New Year gives the sinners time to repent of their evil ways and to have their names written amog the righteous. If they do not take advantage of the oppor- tuity, Let them be plotted out of the book of the living and not be writ ten with the righteous
 In New York. the worlds greatest ceter of Jenwish populatio, the wor- sklippers at the eynagogues tomorrow will for the first time in history in cIude a negro. A Brooklyn colored attorney was recently admitted into full fellowship with those of the Jew
 An interesting feature of tomorrow's s observance of New Year, among the very orthodox who hold to all the an ceremony The faithful gather on the shores of a running stream and cast bread crumbs upon the water, while peT1it entia1 prayers are offered and verses are recited. In many cities the Jews have abandoned this feature of the New Year service. but 1t is still ceremony is usually held on the Brook
 Since man fret devised calendar, New Years Day has always been marked by festivals. and rejoicing and rhe interchange of gifts, as well as aby religious services. In the Hebrew calendar. Rosh Hashonah is exceeded sn importance only by Tom Ktppur.
 The Jewish method of reckoning time is from sundown to Sundown, in accordance with the order set forth in ehe biblical account of the creation. The Jewish cycle in nineteen years exceeds the Gregorian by two hours, eight minutes and fifteen seconds Be fore going into Egypt the ancient He brews calculated time only by the moon. In the succeeding centuries the Jews have had much trouble in keep ing their calendar straight, and in its r1reeent form it is day in error in each 216 years.