Source: USA TODAY
Wire Service: AP
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It was obvious Marc Scher was uncomfortable talking about a decision he made.
This year, he told friends and family the Congregation of Israel synagogue would not hold high holy days services that would have been observed the third week of September.
Without interruption for almost 130 years, the Jewish community in Pocomoke City has observed Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and nine days later, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Now, on his watch, he said, a tradition dear to his heart will be broken.
A decade ago, he knew this day would come. What he didn't know is that he would also be the last Jew standing, the only one in town of a congregation that was formed almost 130 years ago in Cape Charles. Of the two other Shore congregations, Salisbury and Ocean City, Pocomoke's is the oldest.