Evening star., 1941-09-21
Service Men 10 Join
In Observance Of
Rosh Hashanah
Traditional Ten-Doy
Period of Repentance
Will Stort Tonight

Washington Jewry as well as
service men in the nearby camps will
worship at temples and synagogues
tonight in traditional observance OF
RoSh Hashanah.
Shutdown will mark the beginning
Of the Today period Of repentance
for those of the Jewish faith. Rosh
Hashanah will open the year STOP
on the Jewish calendar. Celebration
of the holy day, known as the day
of judgment and the day OF
memorial, will continue tomorrow
and Tuesday.
Symbolism in the service will
center on the blowing of the Shofar
or rams horn, sounding the call to
repentance. The sounds OF the
Shofar mark the Fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man and re-
mind followers of Judaism of the
coming of the Messianic age.
Special provision has been made
for Jewish men stationed at nearby
camps to join the community in
the observance. Special services
for visitors to Washington and men
in the services will be held by the
Washington Hebrew Congregation
at the First Congregational Church,
Tenth and G streets NV. tonight
and tomorrow morning in addition
to the regular services at the Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation temple
conducted by Rabbi Norman Ger
stenfeld.
Rabbi Fierman to Officiate.
Rabbi Morton C. Fierman, director
of religious education at the temple,
will off1ciate at the services in the
church. Music will be by a volunteer
choir, led by Adolph Torovsky,
music director Of the Church of the
Epiphany.
Special services also have been
arranged for members Of the Doth
Division, who are on maneuvers at
the A. P. Hill Reservation in
Caroline County, Va. These will be
held at Fredericksburg and at the
reservation through the co-opera-
ton of the local Jewish Welfare
Board Army and Navy Committee
Rabbi H. Xvi Glickman. organizer
of the Peoples Culture Synagogue
will conduct high holy day services
for the Jewish patients of st. Eliza
beth's Hospital tonight and tomor-
row. The Hebrew Sisters Aid Circle
will iet ~. La
Rabbi Solomon H. Metz, spiritual
leader of Adas Israel Congregation,
will speak on Escape From Free
dom" at tomorrow's service and on
There Is God" at Tuesdays serv-
Ice. No sermons are preached at
the sundown services tonight
Rabbi Levinson to Preach.
Services at Beth Sholom Syna-
gogue will begin at $50 o'clock to-
night. Rabbi M H. Levinson will
preach on Days Of Woe" at tomor-
rows service and Call of the Sho-
far" on Tuesday. Adolph Vygoda is
the cantor.
Rabbi Henry Segal will lead the
services at Bnai Israel Synagogue,
speaking tomorrow on What Shall
We Do in the Meantime?" and
Tuesday on whittier Shall We
Turn?" The cantor will be Louis
Shullman of Newark, N. j.
The Ohev Sholom Congregation
of Arlington, Va, will hold its serv-
ices tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday
at the auditorium of the Ashton
Heights Women's Club, Alb North
Irving street, Arlington. Services
will be conducted by Rabbi Hugo
Schiff of Beth El Temple in Alex
andria. Rabbi Schiff Is a refugee
from Nazi Germany.
Other services will be held in
Washington at the Agudath Achim
Congregation, Tifereth Israel Con-
gregation, Kesher Israel Congrega-
tion, Ohev Sholom Congregation OF
Washington. Chev. Sholom Syna-
gogue, Southeast Hebrew Congre-
cation, Eras Israel Congregation
and the Hebrew Home for the Aged