High Holidays; Jews Prepare to Celebrate Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › September 13, 2004
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Being a Jew in Dubuque on the high holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur might be like being a Christian on Mars at Christmas.
Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, begins this year at sundown Wednesday. It is the beginning of 10 days of soul searching and repentance. Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Sept. 24, is the Day of Atonement. The day of fasting and prayer is followed by a feast.See the full content of this document
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High Holidays; Jews Prepare to Celebrate Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
Ann Barrash, a member of Dubuque's Temple Beth El, grew up in a west side Chicago neighborhood where there was a synagogue on every other street corner and 99 percent of her public school classmates were Jewish
"The school closed for Jewish holidays," she said. "There was no question about identity. I knew we were J...See the full content of this document
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