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Online Passover Services
Online Passover Services
Online Passover Services Sunday, March 28th | 10:15 AM Join us on Zoom here Meeting ID: 831345264
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Lunch Together Online: Will Prosper, “A Film Director and Civil Rights Activist on Racism and Grassroots Change”
Lunch Together Online: Will Prosper, “A Film Director and Civil Rights Activist on Racism and Grassroots Change”
Tuesday, March 30th | 12 noon Will Prosper, “A Film Director and Civil Rights Activist on Racism and Grassroots Change” Will Prosper is a documentary filmmaker and civil rights activist. A former RCMP officer, he co-founded Montréal-Nord Républik, a citizens’ movement against police brutality and economic oppression. He is also the co-founder of the Hoodstock Social Forum, a space for dialogue and social innovation for the cocreation of inclusive, safe and dynamic urban spaces. Over the years, Will has contributed to important civil society institutions in Quebec, such as the Popular Commission on Political Repression, the Ligue des droits et libertés, the Coalition for Equality and Against Systemic […]
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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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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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Last day of Pesach and Yizkor service
Last day of Pesach and Yizkor service
Last day of Pesach and Yizkor service Saturday, April 3rd | 10:15 AM Join us on Zoom here Meeting ID: 831345264
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Lunch Together Online with Lee Pollock “Winston Churchill and the Jews”
Lunch Together Online with Lee Pollock “Winston Churchill and the Jews”
Tuesday, April 6th | 12 noon Lee Pollock “Winston Churchill and the Jews” Lee Pollock is an acclaimed writer, historian and public speaker on the life and times of Winston Churchill. He has written about Churchill for the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, and the Daily Beast; he has appeared on CBS, the BBC and other media outlets in the U.S. and Britain. Lee has spoken about Churchill’s legacy and leadership at venues ranging from the U.S. House of Representatives, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Supreme Court, to leading universities, history museums, non-profit institutions and clubs. Lee is a Trustee, Advisor to the Board and Member 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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Shabbat Kavod
Shabbat Kavod
Shabbat Kavod: “Congregations in changing times” On this special Shabbat, we honour our lay leaders and volunteers. The One World Award will be presented to our Inclusion Committee (2020 honourees) and Member Connections (2021 honourees), for their work to build sacred community in keeping with our highest values. We will be joined by guest speakers from the North American Reform movement.
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Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Zoom link: Rosh Chodesh (any month) https://zoom.us/j/95290651672 Meeting ID: 952 9065 1672
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Lunch Together Online with Gail Chamberland and Nadine St-Louis
Lunch Together Online with Gail Chamberland and Nadine St-Louis
Tuesday, April 13th | 12 noon Gail Chamberland and Nadine St-Louis “Symbolism and iconography as a way of storytelling, Indigenous ways of passing down culture and traditions” Register here. Nadine St-Louis is a social and cultural entrepreneur and Founder of Sacred Fire Productions, a non-profit Indigenous cultural organization, whose mandate is to promote Indigenous art, artists, and cultures through projects and events that raise public awareness, break down stereotypes and promote intercultural dialogue for the inclusion and career advancement of Indigenous learning and growth www.templemontreal.ca Dedicated. Dynamic. Diverse. 19 artists. In 2015, she launched the Ashukan Cultural Space, the first cultural and economic incubator in the heart 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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Shabbat Special Live: New Arrangements for Women’s Quartet by Rona Nadler
Shabbat Special Live: New Arrangements for Women’s Quartet by Rona Nadler
April 16th 7:45 PM New Arrangements for Women’s Quartet by Rona Nadler A special musical Shabbat with old and new melodies in original arrangements for women’s a cappella quartet. To join us here for Erev Shabbat evening services click here.
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Lunch Together Online with Pamela Schuller
Lunch Together Online with Pamela Schuller
Tuesday, April 20th | 12 noon Pamela Schuller "What Makes Me Tic: Comedy, Disability, and the Inclusive Community" As a teen, Pamela Schuller had the worst-diagnosed case of Tourette Syndrome in the country, a touch of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and a whole lot of pent-up anger. She spent years depressed, suicidal, and wishing her differences away. Over time, she started looking at her life differently and turned her obstacles and challenges into the very fuel that propels her. Now an internationally known disability and mental health advocate and professional stand-up comedian, Pamela’s stories of growing up in a body she had no control over are engaging, powerful, a little […]
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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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Lunch Together Online with Elie Benchetrit
Lunch Together Online with Elie Benchetrit
Tuesday, April 27th | 12 noon Elie Benchetrit “Montreal Sephardic community and its history” Born in Tangier, Morocco, Elie Benchetrit recounts the history of Montreal’s communautaire séfarade, beginning in Morocco and other regions in North Africa, tracing the stories of firstgeneration immigrants to Canada. He is currently the Secretary General for the Canadian Sephardi Federation, and a consultant-translator at Federation CJA and other Jewish agencies. Fluent in Spanish – as well as French and English – in 2017 he published a novel called El Mazal de los pobres about Tangier’s Jewish life and community after Morocco’s Independence in 1956. He settled in Montreal in 1988 after living in Morocco, France, […]
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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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Online Passover Services
Shabbat Kavod
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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 Nisan: Sunday, March 14th at 10:15 AM
Rosh Chodesh Iyyar: Monday, April 12th at 9:00 AM
Rosh Chodesh Sivan: Wednesday, May 12th at 9:00 AM
Rosh Chodesh Tamuz: Thursday, June 10th at 9:00 AM
Rosh Chodesh Av: Saturday, July 10th at 10:15 AM
Rosh Chodesh Elul: Sunday, August 8th at 10:15 AM
Parsha of the Week
Our Rabbis’ Torah thoughts on the weekly Torah portion (parsha).
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March Gift Shop News
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Look What’s Happening at Temple
This program is supported by Linda Kivenko, in memory of her sister, Mona Kaufmann.
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
Tuesday, March 30th | 12 noon
Will Prosper
Tuesday, April 6th | 12 noon
Lee Pollock “Winston Churchill and the Jews”
Tuesday, April 13th | 12 noon
Gail Chamberland and Nadine St-Louis “Symbolism and iconography as a way of storytelling, Indigenous ways of passing down culture and traditions”
Tuesday, April 20th | 12 noon
Pamela Schuller “What Makes Me Tic: Comedy, Disability, and the inclusive community”
Tuesday, April 27th | 12 noon
Elie Benchetrit “Montreal Sephardic community and its history
Tuesday, May 4th | 12 noon
Sarah Tuttle-Singer “Jerusalem, a love story”
Tuesday, May 11th | 12 noon
Rabbi Mark Fishman “Morality and Legacy: Personal Reflections on Rabbi Jonathan Sacks”
Tuesday, June 8thth | 12 noon
Rabbi Lerner, “Italian Jewry from Crisis to Crisis. An historical overview with special emphasis on the rise of Mussolini and the Fascist state and its effects on the Jews.”
See What’s Going on at Temple
Interested in connecting with like-minded people who have similar interests? Join our newly forming Small Groups at Temple. Click below for more information; contact Sari if you have questions. sari@templemontreal.ca
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.
