Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Doubly Day of Mourning. [ARTICLE]

Doubly Day of Mourning.

A strange coincidence marked the recent air raid in London. It occurred on a Saturday during the time of the synagogue seryices, and there could not have been one Jewish house of worship where alarm was created, where the sinister significance of the day was not recalled. For it was the seventeenth day of the month of Tammuz, the anniversary of the destine- # tlon of the outer walls of Jerusalem by Titus. Legend also ascribes the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to this day. to the breaking of v the Tables of the Law by Moses, an* ~ the erection of an idol In the sanctuary,lt is one of the days of mourning in the Jewish calendar, one of the four principal fast days of the year. Jews, however, are forbidden to fast on the Sabbath, and when the anniversary falls on that day Its observance Is put off to the next day.