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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 (...)

Ordeal in wilderness remembered, This week Metro Jews celebrate Succoth, a seven-day harvest festival' recalling how the children of Israel wandered (...)

Date9/29/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ordeal in wilderness remembered; This week Metro Jews celebrate Succoth; a seven-day harvest festival' recalling how the children of Israel wandered the wilderness before reaching the promised land. Today many Jewish families celebrate the feast by living in huts calls succahs decorated with fruits. The succahs; used by the Israeli during their trek in the wilderness; are built in backyards during the festival. Celebrating the feast are; from left Nina Kruger; 6; Mrs. Arthur Lerman; Prof. Arthur Kruger with Gerald; 2 1/2; Mrs. Kruger; Naomi; 1; Sarah; 9.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0013264F
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(...)
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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(...)
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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(...)
9/17/1972
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(...)
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10/8/1970
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Jews Mark High Holy Days, Rabbi Albert Pappenheim and Cantor David Greengarten assist ritual director Theodore Bloom as he sounds the shofar (bibilica(...)
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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(...)
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The dead remembered
The dead remembered
9/18/1983
Hare Krishna supporters celebrate festival with $5,000 float, parade
Hare Krishna supporters celebrate festival with $5,000 float, parade
8/14/1977
Children play a major role in the celebration of the Seder meal, which symbolizes Israel's exodus from Egypt
Children play a major role in the celebration of the Seder meal, which symbolizes Israel's exodus from Egypt
4/11/1973
Metro Portuguese hold festival, Climaxing annual three-day St
Metro Portuguese hold festival, Climaxing annual three-day St
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This scene will be familiar in thousands of Jewish homes tonight as families celebrates the first night of the feast of Passover. It's a week of good (...)
This scene will be familiar in thousands of Jewish homes tonight as families celebrates the first night of the feast of Passover. It's a week of good (...)
4/11/1973
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