An Open Letter to Dr. Mamdouh Shoukri, President of York University
As community organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for Jewish students on campus, and advocating for the Jewish community, we read your recent stateme…
Intermarried families, immigrants, LGBT people and others who do not fit the “norm” of Montreal’s traditional, closely-knit Jewish community should not be excluded. Reaching out to and respecting these groups’ particular needs is not only a matter of accommod…
Keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive
"When you listen to a witness, you become a witness … please heal the world." The eloquent plea of Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg Cohen perhaps best underpins and represents a new work, Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to Ne…
By Janice Arnold, Staff Reporter -
March 15, 2016
MONTREAL – Jews must work with Christians and Muslims in combating anti-Semitism because they simply do not have the numbers to do so alone, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks stressed in a March 14 address at Congregation Shaar…
