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Lunch Together Online: Helen Fremont, “Family Secrets, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust”
Lunch Together Online: Helen Fremont, “Family Secrets, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust”
Lunch Together Online: Helen Fremont, “Family Secrets, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust” Helen Fremont, a lawyer and critically acclaimed writer, was raised Roman Catholic by her Eastern European emigre parents. It was not until she was thirty-five that she discovered that her parents were, in fact, Jewish Holocaust survivors. The story of her parents’ survival of the Soviet and Nazi occupations, as well as her own efforts to piece together her family’s hidden identity is recorded in her national bestselling memoir, After Long Silence. Her new memoir, The Escape Artist, published in 2020 by Simon & Schuster, was selected by The New York Times as an “Editor’s Choice” […]
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Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow Thank you for your interest in Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow. This series will be held Wednesdays at noon, beginning November 18, and take a break on December 16th, resuming in 2021. The Talmud is a central Jewish text, famously full of legal debates, but also full of stories. These weekly classes will explore different tales from the Talmud, and what they reveal about human nature, relationships, ethics, and God. Beginning with a brief orientation to the Talmud and its place in Jewish tradition, we will study stories compiled in two books: The Land of Truth by Jeffrey Rubenstein, and A Bride for […]
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Shabbat Special Live: Rabbi Oded Mazor
Shabbat Special Live: Rabbi Oded Mazor
Shabbat Special Live: Rabbi Oded Mazor Join us here: Erev Shabbat evening services Fridays at 7:45 pm, click here.
Erev Shabbat Service
Erev Shabbat Service
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424 The Mishkan Tefillah, prayer book, is available online so you can follow the online services. For a Kindle version, click here For Rosh Chodesh use this prayer book. For a Kindle version click here For a Mishkan Tefillah for Shabbat, Festivals and Rosh Chodesh click here. Need help with the Zoom links? Send us an email.
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Lunch Together Online: Jeremy Dauber: “Jewish Comedy: A History in Five Jokes”
Lunch Together Online: Jeremy Dauber: “Jewish Comedy: A History in Five Jokes”
Lunch Together Online: Jeremy Dauber: “Jewish Comedy: A History in Five Jokes” Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University, where he also serves as director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and teaches in the American Studies program. He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Harvard and his doctorate from the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. His previous books include In the Demon’s Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern, also Antonio’s Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, and The Worlds of […]
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Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow Thank you for your interest in Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow. This series will be held Wednesdays at noon, beginning November 18, and take a break on December 16th, resuming in 2021. The Talmud is a central Jewish text, famously full of legal debates, but also full of stories. These weekly classes will explore different tales from the Talmud, and what they reveal about human nature, relationships, ethics, and God. Beginning with a brief orientation to the Talmud and its place in Jewish tradition, we will study stories compiled in two books: The Land of Truth by Jeffrey Rubenstein, and A Bride for […]
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Temple Connects: World Politics: Unflinching conversations
Temple Connects: World Politics: Unflinching conversations
Temple Connects: Small Groups at Temple Group: World Politics: Unflinching conversations Dates & Time: 7:00 PM – January 14, February 11, March 11, April 8, May 13, June 10 Duration: 6 months, with continuation to be discussed later The group will examine world politics vis-a-vis Current Events. Hosted by: Brian Grant and David Moll Contact sari@templemontreal.ca for details
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Erev Shabbat Service
Erev Shabbat Service
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424 The Mishkan Tefillah, prayer book, is available online so you can follow the online services. For a Kindle version, click here For Rosh Chodesh use this prayer book. For a Kindle version click here For a Mishkan Tefillah for Shabbat, Festivals and Rosh Chodesh click here. Need help with the Zoom links? Send us an email.
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Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Zoom link: Rosh Chodesh (any month) https://zoom.us/j/95290651672 Meeting ID: 952 9065 1672
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Lunch Together Online: Iris Amizlev: “Chaki’s Contrasting Worlds”
Lunch Together Online: Iris Amizlev: “Chaki’s Contrasting Worlds”
Lunch Together Online: Iris Amizlev: “Chaki’s Contrasting Worlds” Curator and art historian, Iris Amizlev has a doctorate in Art History and Anthropology and a Master’s in Art History from Université de Montréal as well as a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Concordia University. She has worked in the curatorial departments of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). Amizlev led the Volunteer Guides program in the Education and Wellness Division at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and served as guest curator in the realization of the Stephan Crétier and Stéphany Maillery Wing for the Arts of One World, in […]
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Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow Thank you for your interest in Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow. This series will be held Wednesdays at noon, beginning November 18, and take a break on December 16th, resuming in 2021. The Talmud is a central Jewish text, famously full of legal debates, but also full of stories. These weekly classes will explore different tales from the Talmud, and what they reveal about human nature, relationships, ethics, and God. Beginning with a brief orientation to the Talmud and its place in Jewish tradition, we will study stories compiled in two books: The Land of Truth by Jeffrey Rubenstein, and A Bride for […]
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Shabbat Special Live with Reverend Letitia M. Campbell
Shabbat Special Live with Reverend Letitia M. Campbell
Shabbat Special Live: "Overcoming silence: truth-telling and courageous listening in divided times” with Reverend Letitia M. Campbell Join us here Erev Shabbat evening services Fridays at 7:45 pm, click here.
Erev Shabbat Service
Erev Shabbat Service
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424 The Mishkan Tefillah, prayer book, is available online so you can follow the online services. For a Kindle version, click here For Rosh Chodesh use this prayer book. For a Kindle version click here For a Mishkan Tefillah for Shabbat, Festivals and Rosh Chodesh click here. Need help with the Zoom links? Send us an email.
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Lunch Together Online: Irwin Cotler
Lunch Together Online: Irwin Cotler
Lunch Together Online: Irwin Cotler The Honourable Irwin Cotler is the Founder- Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, longtime Member of Parliament, international human rights lawyer, counsel to prisoner of conscience, and Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University. Register here.
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Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow Thank you for your interest in Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow. This series will be held Wednesdays at noon, beginning November 18, and take a break on December 16th, resuming in 2021. The Talmud is a central Jewish text, famously full of legal debates, but also full of stories. These weekly classes will explore different tales from the Talmud, and what they reveal about human nature, relationships, ethics, and God. Beginning with a brief orientation to the Talmud and its place in Jewish tradition, we will study stories compiled in two books: The Land of Truth by Jeffrey Rubenstein, and A Bride for […]
Temple Book Group
Temple Book Group
Temple Book Group meets on Zoom on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 4 PM. Email Rabbi Greenspan at rabbigreenspan@templemontreal.ca for more information about the Book Group and to join the Book Group mailing list.
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Erev Shabbat Service
Erev Shabbat Service
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424 The Mishkan Tefillah, prayer book, is available online so you can follow the online services. For a Kindle version, click here For Rosh Chodesh use this prayer book. For a Kindle version click here For a Mishkan Tefillah for Shabbat, Festivals and Rosh Chodesh click here. Need help with the Zoom links? Send us an email.
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Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Grow with Rabbi Grushcow
Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow Thank you for your interest in Tales from the Talmud with Rabbi Grushcow. This series will be held Wednesdays at noon, beginning November 18, and take a break on December 16th, resuming in 2021. The Talmud is a central Jewish text, famously full of legal debates, but also full of stories. These weekly classes will explore different tales from the Talmud, and what they reveal about human nature, relationships, ethics, and God. Beginning with a brief orientation to the Talmud and its place in Jewish tradition, we will study stories compiled in two books: The Land of Truth by Jeffrey Rubenstein, and A Bride for […]
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1 event,
Erev Shabbat Service
Erev Shabbat Service
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424 The Mishkan Tefillah, prayer book, is available online so you can follow the online services. For a Kindle version, click here For Rosh Chodesh use this prayer book. For a Kindle version click here For a Mishkan Tefillah for Shabbat, Festivals and Rosh Chodesh click here. Need help with the Zoom links? Send us an email.
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Lunch Together Online: Irwin Cotler
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Important Statement
Kol Yisrael aravim zeh b’zeh, kol Yisrael achim – All the people of Israel are responsible for one another, all of us are sisters and brothers.
As a Jewish community, we are connected to one another around the world. Our joys and our sorrows are shared.
This is especially true close to home. The Shaar Hashomayim is our neighbour in Westmount. Our clergy, staff, and congregants are colleagues and friends. We join together in Westmount Park on Rosh Hashanah, and at Westmount City Hall for Chanukah. There is so much that connects us.
And so our hearts are with the Shaar Hashomayim today. Swastikas were spray-painted on their doors, and a container of gasoline carried by the assailant. It is thanks to the quick and courageous action of the synagogue’s security and our city’s police that the offender was apprehended and arrested, and for this we are all grateful.
We at Temple will continue to be vigilant and work together with the City of Westmount and FederationCJA on security. We also know that we can follow every protocol and still be confronted with anti-Semitism. The work of tikkun olam, creating a better world, is still incomplete. But we stand together in solidarity and support, and we will always stand up against hate. May tomorrow be a better day.
Neil Wiener, President
Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, Senior Rabbi
Shellie Ettinger, Executive Director
Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom
Online Shabbat Services
Shabbat Services have pivoted online. Please join us via Zoom.
Service hours: Fridays evening at 7:45 pm; Saturdays at 10:15 am
Torah Study, Saturdays at 9:00 am
Rosh Chodesh:
Rosh Chodesh Adar: Friday,
February 12th, 9:00 AM
Parsha of the Week
Our Rabbis’ Torah thoughts on the weekly Torah portion (parsha).
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March Gift Shop News
Schedule your personal Passover shopper!
This program is supported by Linda Kivenko, in memory of her sister, Mona Kaufmann.
Tuesday, February 23rd | 12 noon
Nicole Beaudry, Eddie Paul, Eddie Stone
Tuesday, March 2nd | 12 noon
Helen Fremont, “Family Secrets, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust”
Tuesday, March 9th | 12 noon
Jeremy Dauber: “Jewish Comedy: A History in Five Jokes”
Tuesday, March 16th | 12 noon
Iris Amizlev: “Chaki’s Contrasting Worlds”
Tuesday, March 23rd | 12 noon
Irwin Cotler
Yizkor Video
At Temple, we have a long tradition of honouring the memories of our loved ones on Yom Kippur with the printed Roll of Remembrance. This year, we continued this tradition in a new way, by creating a video that was incorporated into the Yizkor service online.
Temple in the News
CityNews Montreal: Quebec Jewish community feel forgotten amid holiday plan
November 22, 2020
Montreal Gazette: Religious minorities say Quebec allowing Christmas gatherings shows double standard
November 21, 2020
Religious minorities say Quebec’s Christmas gathering plan shows a double standard
November 22, 2020
Montreal Gazette: Making music again, after a harrowing bout with COVID-19
October 7th, 2020
Rabbi Grushcow on CTV Montreal news with Mutsumi Takahashi
September 8th, 2020
SJN: Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom continues to thrive online and plans June 11 event
Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom adapts to COVID-19
Vol. 14 No. 4, April 14, 2020
Jewish Montrealers vow to celebrate Passover with ‘same joy’ despite COVID-19 restrictions
CBC, Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Jewish stereotypes amid COVID-19,
CTV news, Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Temple of Zoom by Rabbi Grushcow
Times of Israel, March 29, 2020
Forbidden to gather, people of faith are finding ways to connect during the pandemic
CBC, March 29, 2020
Chosen Family, podcast: Super Soul Sexuality with Rabbi Lisa Grushcow
February 2020
Naqvi-Mohamed: Learning about others can teach us about ourselves
The Gazette – Thursday, January 30, 2020
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Life & Legacy
LIFE & LEGACY is a partnership between the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) and Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom that promotes after-lifetime giving.
Why participate?
Making a provision for Temple in your will or estate will leave a legacy for future generations ensuring that the traditions and institutions that mean so much to you today will exist for tomorrow. To have a conversation about leaving a legacy at Temple please send us an email.
Read the article about the launch of LIFE & LEGACY in Montreal.
It’s not about the number—it’s about ensuring the continuity of Jewish institutions important to you. A legacy gift of any size makes a difference!
Thank you to those that have pledged to leave a legacy to Temple:
Robert Davis, Shellie Ettinger, Arlene Fels, Louise Dery-Goldberg and Joel Goldberg, Rabbi Lisa and Shelley Grushcow, Dr. Barbara Morningstar, Corey and Tiffany Phelps, Eileen Ramos Segal, Joel Segal, Brahms E. Silver, Michael Tinkler, Neil Wiener, and several anonymous donors.
