The Jewish New Year Will Begin at Sunset Monday
Impressive Services Will be Held by the Washington Hebrew, the Adas Israel, and the Avas Shoben Congregations--A Local Rabbi Gives a Summary of the Celebration
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, will be celebrated in Washington beginning Monday evening at sunset and continuing until Tuesday and Wednesday at sunset. There will be special services in the Jewish churches. Rabbi Louis Stern, of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, popularly known as the Eighth Street Temple, will hold services at 7:30 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday, the latter service lasting for two hours with a sermon by the rabbi. There will be special music by the chois, the quartetteof which consists of Mrs. Nellie Wilson Shir-Cliffe, soprano; Mrs. Marguerite Nolan Martin, alto; John H Nolan, bass; William D. McFarland, tenor. The organist if George W. Walter.
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This is the 5660th year in the Jewish calendar, being the first day of the seventh month of Tishri, which is the day of the civil year, and dates from the time of Ezra, when the Children of Israel returned from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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Rosh Hashana is followed by ten days of penance, ending in the Day of Atonement called Yom Kippur, when the faithful Jewish people fast from sunset to sunset. This year Yom Kuppur will begin at sunset Thursday, September 14.
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