On the 90th anniversary of the Christie Pits riot, Jewish Toronto still remembers the fight with pride
A look at how commemorations have evolved since Aug. 16, 1933.
Canadian Jewish history comes to life in the pages of ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Franklin Bialystok
I am a self-professed lover of Canadian Jewish history—a passion which set me on my career path as an archivist at Canada’s second-oldest synagogue, Montreal’s Shaar Hashomayim. Yet I often lament how little we as Canadian Jews—and indeed, the rest of Canada and the Jewish diaspora—know of our own history. Franklin Bialystok’s new book has […]
A road trip to Quebec—into Canada’s earliest Jewish history, with Robert Walker
After a seven-hour drive east of Toronto, I arrived in Trois-Rivières. I had finally started my Quebec road trip; a brief respite of hiking, sightseeing and enjoying the vast wilderness of La Belle Province. I parked my car, and stepped outside, my legs feeling numb from driving all day, and I began walking around the […]
