Controversial rapper Freeze Corleone’s appearance in Montreal has been scrapped after Jewish community outrage
After an initial silence in the face of outrage from Jewish organizations, the Olympia performance hall has cancelled a show next month by a French rapper with a history of antisemitic song lyrics. Patrick Levy, owner of the 1,300-seat venue, told B’nai Brith Canada that contractual obligations with the show’s producers had to be examined […]
Freeze Corleone, a rapper from France who’s accused of antisemitism, is raising concerns among Jewish organizations in Montreal
Jewish organizations in Montreal have raised concerns about the upcoming appearance of a French rapper who they accuse of “virulent” antisemitism and Holocaust denial, but so far, the performance hall has deflected their objections. Freeze Corleone, who is slated to appear Dec. 4 at The Olympia, a 1,300-seat venue, “exploits and abuses his platform to […]
Ukrainian Jews celebrated Sukkot 2022 in Montreal—but they also watched anxiously as the war was showing no end
Marianna Lasinska can only watch helplessly as her city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine comes under renewed Russian attack. She and her 15-year-old daughter Martina, her only child, managed to flee Mykolaiv last spring and settle in Montreal this summer, leaving behind her husband, a doctor, who has been in the thick of the Ukrainian […]
Boris Brott will be remembered in a musical tribute to be performed by the legendary conductor’s own orchestra
Six months after his tragic death, the renowned Canadian conductor Boris Brott will be celebrated in a tribute concert that reflects the diversity of his career and interests. Boris: His Life in Music will open the 83rd season of the Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) on Oct.18. Brott was artistic director of the OCM and […]
The mysterious fate of one of Argentina’s ‘disappeared’ gets illuminated in a retired academic’s new book
Marc Raboy was easing into retirement in 2018 after a long academic career at McGill, when his partner suggested a trip to Argentina where she might practise her newly learned Spanish. The South American country had always held a latent curiosity for Raboy as his paternal grandfather spent a year there in the early 20th […]
Montreal’s Segal Theatre presents plays that range from the provocative to the irreverent this season
A provocative new play that explores the impact of antisemitism in France across generations will be staged at Montreal’s Segal Centre for Performing Arts this season. Prayer for the French Republic by the American Joshua Harmon had its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club earlier this year, garnering glowing reviews. The New York Times […]
Montreal’s deteriorating YM-YWHA building gets pledged $7.9M in federal funding
The federal government has come to the aid of Montreal’s Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA which has found the cost of maintaining its large, aging building increasingly onerous. The Y will receive $7.9 million to upgrade its energy systems and make the premises more physically accessible, Mount Royal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather announced at a press conference […]
Montreal and New York bagels faced off in a friendly match at Canada’s newest Jewish museum
Right off the top, those crowded into the Museum of Jewish Montreal’s (MJM) funky new digs in Mile End were put on notice that they were there for “a celebration not a competition.” A Tale of Two Bagels: Tasting Montreal and New York’s Best was touted as a friendly consideration of the merits of each […]
Obituary: Mel Hoppenheim, 84, was a Canadian film industry pioneer known as ‘Mr. Hollywood North’
Mel Hoppenheim, who is being hailed as a visionary pioneer in the Canadian film and television industry, might never have left his job in meat packing if he hadn’t had a keen eye for opportunity and a daring entrepreneurial spirit. Hoppenheim, who died on July 27 at age 84 in Montreal, rose from humble origins […]
Moroccan Jews and Muslims extol country’s openness and shared heritage at a Montreal conference
Le Maroc: Terre de la Convivence, the title of a two-day gathering of Jews and Muslims of Moroccan origin, sums up its message that the country was and is a land of peaceful co-existence. Academics, religious officials and community leaders from Canada, Morocco, Israel and France participated in the conference held July 24-25 at the […]
