Tribute: Gershon Hundert, 77, a McGill professor of Jewish Studies, is remembered as a scholar committed to his students and the study of history
The death of Gershon Hundert hits me hard along with legions of friends, colleagues, and students as well as loving family. It seems wrong that at a moment of such national crisis when Gershon’s presence would have been a steadying comfort and reminder of goodness, his great heart should have given out. But I’m thankful […]
Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, a Bedouin peace activist and director of a McGill program for human rights, is alarmed by new Israeli political landscape
A trailblazer in Arab-Jewish relations and Bedouin rights activist views the current situation in Israel “the worst” in her lifetime—both for minorities and the country as a whole. Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, founder of the non-governmental Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Economic Empowerment and Cooperation, said she no longer has much hope for a two-state solution. Ahl’jooj, […]
McGill student Jonah Fried sues his university and student union for anti-Israel referendum that was ‘discriminatory, biased and antisemitic’
A Jewish and Zionist McGill student is suing his student union, a pro-Palestinian campus club, and the university administration for allegedly failing to protect him from the discrimination and harassment he suffered as a result of a referendum condemning Israel this past semester. In his deposition in Quebec Superior Court, Jonah Fried names as defendants […]
Gerald Rimer and sons’ donation to McGill will create a new Indigenous research institute; Leacock name to disappear from the Montreal campus
The Stephen Leacock Building, a landmark on the McGill University campus for more than a half-century memorializing the famous Canadian humorist and academic, is to be renamed for a Jewish family in recognition of their major donation. Pioneering venture capitalist Gerald Rimer, who graduated from McGill in 1956 with a bachelor of commerce degree, and […]
