Montreal police arrested a youth for the assault on a man carrying an Israeli flag
The person arrested in connection with an assault in May on a Montreal man carrying an Israeli flag is a minor and his identity will not be released, police said on July 20. They are not looking for any other suspects in the incident. A 15-year-old was released and will appear in youth court at […]
The winning architects of the new Montreal Holocaust Museum have been announced
Two Canadian architectural firms have been chosen to design the new Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM), a $90-million project scheduled to be completed in September 2025. The joint proposal submitted by KPMB Architects of Toronto and Montreal-based Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker is the winner of an international competition launched last fall. Their design was selected from […]
Montreal police make an arrest after the assault of a man carrying an Israeli flag
Montreal police have made an arrest in connection with an incident on May 5 in which two young men assaulted an older man on the street in broad daylight, following a rally celebrating Israel’s independence. Last month, the force’s hate crimes unit made an appeal for the public’s help in finding the two alleged perpetrators. […]
The trial of this accused Jew-hater in Montreal has turned into a debate over the link between Nazism and the Holocaust
The trial of a Montreal man accused of inciting hatred against Jews on a far-right website turned into an exchange between the prosecution and the defense over whether Nazi ideology was at the root of the decision to exterminate Jews. Quebec Court Justice Manlio Del Negro reproached both lawyers during the July 8 hearing: Crown […]
Obituary: Sheila Goldbloom, 96, was a mentor who believed in building understanding between communities
Sheila Goldbloom was confident that she was destined to make a contribution to society when she graduated from Mount Holyoke, a prestigious women’s college in Massachusetts, in 1947. Unlike other elite schools of its kind at the time, Holyoke groomed its students to make the world a better place through real-life work, rather than finding […]
This rabbi from Montreal is preparing to donate a kidney to a stranger
Life and death converged on Jan. 13, 2020, in a way that Rabbi Yechezkel Rabbi Freundlich could never have imagined. Tragedy and hope came together that day. The spiritual leader of Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem (TBDJ), Rabbi Freundlich had just returned home after hours at the hospital where the two-year-old child of congregants had […]
Montreal temple brings attention to Indigenous people through outdoor photo display
Passersby may do a double take at the sight of three large photographic portraits displayed on Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom on Sherbrooke Street in Westmount. These striking black-and-white pictures, each four feet high, which went up on June 26, are meant to provoke curiosity and, it is hoped, soul-searching. The banner in English and French offers […]
Debate heats up as Côte St. Luc tackles issue of illegal home-based shuls
Just how divisive the issue of the growing number of illegal home-based synagogues in Côte St. Luc has become was clear at a public consultation held on June 20. The city council held the meeting to explain its intention to oblige these shuls to regularize their status or find another legal location. Residents in favour […]
Montreal’s YM-YWHA renovates and hopes to rebuild membership after COVID lockdowns
The Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA, which was closed for all but eight months over two years of the pandemic, is hoping that a new multimillion-dollar fitness centre will convince former members to return and others to sign up. The major upgrade was made possible by a $10-million donation from Sylvan Adams, the former Montrealer now living […]
The CJN’s book columnist Hannah Srour-Zackon reports on a tribute to the Soviet Jewish poets who were murdered 70 years ago
The lives of the Yiddish writers murdered by the Soviet state 70 years ago were honoured by Montreal’s Jewish Public Library (JPL)’s Yiddish Café this week through performances of poetry and music. “On the night of August 12, 1952, some of the most prominent Yiddish poets in the Soviet Union were executed by the state,” […]
