Rabbi uses booze, technology to spread Jewish thought
The fun story behind ‘Beer & Bible’, an unconventional adult education series offered by the Jewish Learning Lab in Quebec.
Quebec’s High Holidays election meant many couldn’t vote: complaint
Many observant Jews were unable to vote in last fall’s provincial election because advance polls were not equipped to handle the extraordinarily high number residents in the riding of D’Arcy McGee who needed to use them, according to a complaint made to Quebec’s chief electoral officer by the D’Arcy McGee Liberal Association.
Businessman Mitch Garber warns against religious symbols ban in Quebec
Multimillionaire businessman Mitch Garber says Quebec risks losing foreign investment and immigrants if the government goes ahead with a ban on religious symbols for some public servants.
Liberal MNA blasts CAQ over proposed religious symbols ban
Liberal MNA David Birnbaum chided Quebec’s new Coalition Avenir Québec government for legislating by opinion polls, in its determination to ban certain public servants from wearing religious symbols.
Montreal unanimously adopts genocide education motion
Montreal city council unanimously adopted a motion calling on the Quebec government to improve “teaching of the history of genocides” in high schools at its Nov. 19 meeting.
French-language history of Quebec Jews wins J.I. Segal Award
Pierre Anctil is the winner of a 2018 J.I. Segal Award for best book in English or French, for his book, Histoire des Juifs du Québec.
Community continues to receive outpouring of support, following Pittsburgh
A reception hall in the South Shore town of Candiac, Que., was filled with representatives of the Christian and Muslim faiths, ethnic and communal organizations, and politicians of all levels, in an expression of solidarity with the area’s small Jewish population, in the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting.
New memoir shines light on Quebec’s 1980s language crisis
Herbert Marx has published a book called My Story, which offers tantalizing details about what was going on behind the scenes in those tumultuous years.
Norma Joseph: Don’t tread on my religion
How could Francois Legault implement a law that infringes on the sacred right of religious freedom, Norma Baumel Joseph asks?
Opinion: CAQ’s election will have major impact on Jewish community
Richard S. Levy says that possible challenges to the government’s proposal to ban religious symbols could pit the Jewish community against the newly-elected premier.
