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Jewish Day of Atonement, The holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, began at sundown last night. At Baycrest Home for t(...)
Jewish Day of Atonement, The holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, began at sundown last night. At Baycrest Home for t(...)

Jewish Day of Atonement, The holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, began at sundown last night. At Baycrest Home for t(...)

Date9/25/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Jewish Day of Atonement; The holiest day in the Jewish calendar; Yom Kippur; the Day of Atonement; began at sundown last night. At Baycrest Home for the Aged on Bathurst St.; Rabbi Abraham Greenspan and 94-year-old Isadore Moses read prayers together before the three-hour service. Hundreds of elderly Jews were there for the service.
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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
Yom Kippur Ends at Sundown, Rabbi Jacob Kirshenblatt of Beth Sholom Synagogue on Eglinton Ave
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9/7/1972
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The atonement of Christ, chiefly in relation to the great question, Was it for all mankind, or for the elect only
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1850
A people person' Sam Ruth ran Baycrest Centre, a Jewish home for the aged, for 25 years and still spends a lot of time taking to residents, including the home's button king, Jake Davis
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On first Canadian visit, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (right) paid a courtesy call on Premier John Robarts (centre) and met Philip Givens, former mayor of Toronto, after arriving in the city yesterday. He planned to spend most of today observing Jewish Sabbath in his hotel room. After sundown he will be guest of honor at a dinner at Adath Israel Synagogue, then will leave tomorrow for Montreal where he will present Israel's Expo pavilion to the city.
1/12/1968
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
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The first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, was celebrated last night in a Forest Hill tent symbolic of those in the Mideast desert where t(...)
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Lest we forget: Bronika Kaplan, David Furmansky and Nathan Shapiro, of the Jewish War Veterans of Canada, reminisce after their Remembrance Day ceremony
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A Jewish calendar for fifty years
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1854