Evening star., 1940-10-02
Jewry
Begins Celebration
Of High Holidays
Rum's Horn to Sound
Tonight Through
City's Synoeoeues

As the blast OF the rams horn
sounds through Jewish synagogues
tonight, Washington Jewry will be-
gin its Today high holidays, start
ing with the celebration of Rosh
Hashanah. the Jewish New Year,
and climaxing with Yom Kippur,
the Day Of Atonement.
Rosh Hashanah. observed for one
day by reformed Jews and two days
by orthodox and conservative con-
gregations. is in the seventh or holy
month of the Jewish calendar and
marks the year 570l. The first
month of the Jewish calendar is in
the spring, but the New Year is
celebrated in the holy month be-
cause the emphasis is on the forces
within man. The period is one Of
reflection and repentance, judg-
ment of selves.
Services tomorrow and Friday are
divided into three parts, the
Malchioth, the Zichronoth and the
Shofroth, with 80 Shofar, or ram S
horn, blasts at the end of each
section and 10 final blasts. Three
motifs on the rams horn are inter-
spersed in the rabbits reading OF
Old Testament passages, the Tkeeah,
Shvorim and Truah.
At dinner tomorrow night Jewish
families will be served honey, SYM
bolizing a pleasant New Year, and
will drink wine for the Kiddish, the
sanctiflcation of the holy day.
Cantors to Sound Call.
Two well-known cantors, garbed
in white caps and robes worn only
during Rosh Hashanan, will sound
the call of the rams horn at services
here. They are Cantor Adolph
Vygoda, who will conduct his first
high holiday services in America at
Beth Sholom Congregation and
Talmud Torah, Eighth and Shep-
herd streets NV. and Cantor Boris
Schiffman, formerly a member of
the Chicago Civic Opera Co., who
will be assisted by a New York
double symphonic choir under
Joseph Lebow's direction at services
in Ohev Sholom Synagogue, Fifth
and 1 streets NV.
At Beth Sholom Congregation,
Rabbi M. H. Levinson will speak
tomorrow on Days of Awe" and
Friday on I'VE Hear the Sound of
the Shofar." Services will be at
$50 o'clock tonight and at 7:3o
am. tomorrow and Friday.
At Ohev Sholom Synagogue, Rab-
bi Zemach Green will speak tomor-
row on Gods Dispensation" and
Friday on Mans Obligation" The
services will begin at o'clock to-
night and tomorrow and Friday will
start at am.
Rabbi Solomon Metz will speak
at Adas Israel Synagogue on Fate
or Which?" at services be-
ginning at 730 am. tomorrow. and
on Friday will take as his topic,
Whence Shall My Help Gomez
Topics at Synagogues.
The Washington Hebrew Congre-
CATION will hear Rabbi Norman Ger
stenfeld speak on Who Failed
Leaders or People?" tomorrow at
services beginning at 1890 am. His
topic tonight at 8 o'clock will be
God Has Not Failed" The other
congregations will not hear sermons
at their services tonight.
Maariv rites will be held tonight
at $50 o'clock at the Hebrew Home
for the Aged. with Maurice Maser
in charge. Services tomorrow and
Friday will be at 7 am. Rabbi
Julius Loeb will deliver the sermon.
Religion and Democracy" will
be the topic tomorrow of Rabbi
Harry Suverstone at the orthodox
Tifereth Israel Synagogue. On Fri
day he will discuss American Des-
! tiny"
At the Southeast Hebrew Syna-
gogue Rabbi Loeb will speak to-
morrow on New Hope for the
Coming of the New Year" and on
Friday he will discuss "Israers
Spiritual Rearmament."
Rabbi Henry Segal of the Bnai
Israel Synagogue will preach tomor-
row on 20 Lord Our God, King
of the Universe" On the second
day of the new year he will speak
on What Must We Do Now?"
With the cooperation of the
Hebrew Sisters Aid Society and the
Jewish Welfare Board, Rabbi Hirsch
2. Glickman. organizer of the Peo-
Piles Ethical Synagogue. again this
year will conduct high holidays,
Jewish new year and day of atone
ment services for Jewish patients
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital.