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Holiest day of jewish year began yesterday when Metro's more than 100,000 jews joined in a 24-hour fast and meditation to mark Yom Kippur, 10th day of(...)
Holiest day of jewish year began yesterday when Metro's more than 100,000 jews joined in a 24-hour fast and meditation to mark Yom Kippur, 10th day of(...)

Holiest day of jewish year began yesterday when Metro's more than 100,000 jews joined in a 24-hour fast and meditation to mark Yom Kippur, 10th day of(...)

Date9/17/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Holiest day of jewish year began yesterday when Metro's more than 100;000 jews joined in a 24-hour fast and meditation to mark Yom Kippur; 10th day of Jewish new year. Rabbi Albert Pappenheim of B'nai Israel Beth David Synagogue lights candles for the 11 Israelis slain by Arab terrorists during Munich Olympic Games as David Stone; 11 looks on. About 1;600 attended last night's service.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0013260F
Metro's Jew Mark Yom Kippur, Four generations of one family read from prayer book at Jewish Home for the Aged as Metro's 110,000 Jews prepare to obser(...)
Metro's Jew Mark Yom Kippur, Four generations of one family read from prayer book at Jewish Home for the Aged as Metro's 110,000 Jews prepare to obser(...)
10/8/1970
Young metro Jews celebrate harvest festival, Jewish teenagers of Toronto's Beth Sholom Synagogue mark Jewish festival of Simchas Torah and Sukkoth wit(...)
Young metro Jews celebrate harvest festival, Jewish teenagers of Toronto's Beth Sholom Synagogue mark Jewish festival of Simchas Torah and Sukkoth wit(...)
10/1/1972
Jews Mark High Holy Days, Rabbi Albert Pappenheim and Cantor David Greengarten assist ritual director Theodore Bloom as he sounds the shofar (bibilica(...)
Jews Mark High Holy Days, Rabbi Albert Pappenheim and Cantor David Greengarten assist ritual director Theodore Bloom as he sounds the shofar (bibilica(...)
9/29/1965
Ordeal in wilderness remembered, This week Metro Jews celebrate Succoth, a seven-day harvest festival' recalling how the children of Israel wandered (...)
Ordeal in wilderness remembered, This week Metro Jews celebrate Succoth, a seven-day harvest festival' recalling how the children of Israel wandered (...)
9/29/1969
Jewish New Year begins, The sound of the shofar or ram's horn heralds Roth Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which began at sundown yesterday. The 10 days(...)
Jewish New Year begins, The sound of the shofar or ram's horn heralds Roth Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which began at sundown yesterday. The 10 days(...)
9/7/1972
Original Toronto Star caption: Muslims celebrate end of Ramadan; Metro's Muslim community; which numbers over 100;000; celebrated Eid al-Fitr yesterday marking the end of the month of Ramadan; the holiest of Muslim celebrations. Religious ceremonies were held in several locations across Metro; including the International Centre in Mississauga; above; where thousands of the faithful bowed in prayer as part of the ancient tradition.
Original Toronto Star caption: Muslims celebrate end of Ramadan; Metro's Muslim community; which numbers over 100;000; celebrated Eid al-Fitr yesterday marking the end of the month of Ramadan; the holiest of Muslim celebrations. Religious ceremonies were held in several locations across Metro; including the International Centre in Mississauga; above; where thousands of the faithful bowed in prayer as part of the ancient tradition.
5/28/1987
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(...)
9/29/1970
Holy Day: About 6,000 members of Metro's Muslim community hug each other in a greeting yesterday in Markham where they gathered to mark the end of Haj rituals in Saudi Arabia
Holy Day: About 6,000 members of Metro's Muslim community hug each other in a greeting yesterday in Markham where they gathered to mark the end of Haj rituals in Saudi Arabia
6/22/1991
Happy Sikhs celebrate holy day, Carloads of Sikhs, including many children waving bright yellow flags, joined in the downtown parade yesterday marking(...)
Happy Sikhs celebrate holy day, Carloads of Sikhs, including many children waving bright yellow flags, joined in the downtown parade yesterday marking(...)
4/16/1983
A New Year Begins, Harry Applebaum, who's 99, blows the traditional shofar (ram's horn) at Baycrest Geriatric Centre to mark Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of Jewish Year 5729
A New Year Begins, Harry Applebaum, who's 99, blows the traditional shofar (ram's horn) at Baycrest Geriatric Centre to mark Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of Jewish Year 5729
9/21/1968
Celebrating the beginning, hundreds of Sikhs turn out at Queen's Park yesterday to mark Baisakhi, the day of their founding 292 years ago. In 1699, th(...)
Celebrating the beginning, hundreds of Sikhs turn out at Queen's Park yesterday to mark Baisakhi, the day of their founding 292 years ago. In 1699, th(...)
4/14/1991
Jewish passover seder table is laden with foods to symbolize the story of Moses leading the Jewish people out of bondage in Egypt. Caren Ludwig of Bet(...)
Jewish passover seder table is laden with foods to symbolize the story of Moses leading the Jewish people out of bondage in Egypt. Caren Ludwig of Bet(...)
4/7/1971