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90,000 Metro jews celebrate a new year, Standing in front of Holy Ark curtain, Rabbi Jacob Mendel Kirshenblatt, cantor of Beth Sholom Synagogue, sound(...)
90,000 Metro jews celebrate a new year, Standing in front of Holy Ark curtain, Rabbi Jacob Mendel Kirshenblatt, cantor of Beth Sholom Synagogue, sound(...)

90,000 Metro jews celebrate a new year, Standing in front of Holy Ark curtain, Rabbi Jacob Mendel Kirshenblatt, cantor of Beth Sholom Synagogue, sound(...)

Date9/29/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: 90;000 Metro jews celebrate a new year; Standing in front of Holy Ark curtain; Rabbi Jacob Mendel Kirshenblatt; cantor of Beth Sholom Synagogue; sounds the traditional ram's horn shofar as he explains to a group of children from the synagogue's religious school the rites of Rosh Hashanah; the Jewish New Year. This year 5;731 on the Hebrew calendar will be greeted at sunset today when most of Metro's 90;000 Jews will gather in synagogues.
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