Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — New Year 5678 of Jewish Calendar Will Be Observed. [ARTICLE]

New Year 5678 of Jewish Calendar Will Be Observed.

The Jewish people will on Sunday evening, Sept. 16, enter their houses ’of worship to ushed in the Rosh Hashanah, or new year, 5678, which marks the beginning of -the cycle of sacred observation held during the month of Tishri, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar. While jevery new moon of ancient times was greeted by the sounds of the Shofar (trumpet), the seventh month of the new moon, coming after six months of work in the field, was welcomed with religious exercises as a month of rest and recreation by the agricultural inhabitants of Palestine.