Flashback: Montreal’s hottest spot to dance for Israel
Mount Royal was a favourite site for Montreal Jews to have Israeli dancing meetups, such as one organized by the Hillel Student Association in 1989, at a gathering that coincided with the annual Israel Day. —Courtesy of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives Wolf Bodovsky was a butcher who brought this abacus from Russia to […]
Deep diving into Shaar Hashomayim’s hidden history of Montreal with archivist Hannah Srour
At the beginning of 2021, as Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal sat empty due to COVID restrictions, its past president Claire Berger saw an opportunity to advance a project that began a year earlier: sorting through the effects of the Shaar’s longtime spiritual leader, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat. It was during that time that she noticed […]
