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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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Shabbat Shazoom
Shabbat Shazoom
Family Services @Home: Shabbat ShaZoom Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community. Ages 4 and up, with families Meeting ID: 948 5607 0819 Passcode: 070298 https://zoom.us/j/94856070819?pwd=Smx5SEkxcWZsbjgvTjBFTi9rdlVMdz09
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Shabbat Special Live with Guest Rabbi Stephanie Kramer
Shabbat Special Live with Guest Rabbi Stephanie Kramer
Guest Sermon with Rabbi Stephanie Kramer, "Call the Midwives" Rabbi Stephanie Kramer is the Senior Associate Rabbi at Congregation Shomrei Torah, a Reform congregation in Santa Rosa, California. During the 2017 Northern California Wildfires, Rabbi Kramer led the entire Sonoma County Jewish community with grace and dedication, earning her the moniker the “Fire Rabbi.” Rabbi Kramer’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, eJewish Philanthropy, and The Press Democrat. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424
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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Shabbat Shazoom
Shabbat Shazoom
Family Services @Home: Shabbat ShaZoom Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community. Ages 4 and up, with families Meeting ID: 948 5607 0819 Passcode: 070298 https://zoom.us/j/94856070819?pwd=Smx5SEkxcWZsbjgvTjBFTi9rdlVMdz09
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Lunch Together Online with MNA David Birnbaum, ““Mental Health in a Pandemic – and Beyond”
Lunch Together Online with MNA David Birnbaum, ““Mental Health in a Pandemic – and Beyond”
MNA David Birnbaum, ““Mental Health in a Pandemic – and Beyond” David Birnbaum serves as the member of the National Assembly for the riding of D’Arcy-McGee and as Official Opposition Critic for the Canadian Francophonie, for Canadian Intergovernmental Relations and for Mental Health. He was Elected for the first time in April 2014, he has held the positions of Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier and to both Ministers of Education and Higher Education, and Official Opposition Critic for Aboriginal affairs. He was named Chair of the Montreal Liberal Caucus in November 2018. Previously, Mr. Birnbaum held the position of Executive Director of the Quebec English School Boards Association, […]
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Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat
Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat
Zoom link: Rosh Chodesh (any month) https://zoom.us/j/95290651672 Meeting ID: 952 9065 1672
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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.
3 events,
Shabbat Shazoom
Shabbat Shazoom
Family Services @Home: Shabbat ShaZoom Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community. Ages 4 and up, with families Meeting ID: 948 5607 0819 Passcode: 070298 https://zoom.us/j/94856070819?pwd=Smx5SEkxcWZsbjgvTjBFTi9rdlVMdz09
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Lunch Together Online with Rona Nadler & Joseph Kaiser, “The Making of High Holy Days at Temple Online”
Lunch Together Online with Rona Nadler & Joseph Kaiser, “The Making of High Holy Days at Temple Online”
Rona Nadler & Joseph Kaiser, “The Making of High Holy Days at Temple Online” Rona Nadler, Music Director and Cantorial Soloist at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom: Raised in a family of musicians, Rona Nadler enjoys a multi-faceted career in the Montreal music scene as a harpsichordist, vocalist, and music director. Rona has performed across the United States and Canada as a member of the quartet Infusion Baroque, while also serving as Artistic Director of the vocal ensemble One Equall Musick. Rona has appeared in the Montreal Baroque Festival, Montreal Bach Festival, and Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, and has collaborated with ensembles such as Ensemble Caprice, I Musici de Montreal, and […]
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Shabbat Special Live with Guest Haroon Moghul
Shabbat Special Live with Guest Haroon Moghul
In participation with Muslim Awareness Week: Haroon Moghul "My First, Worst Vote" Haroon Moghul is a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He's been published widely, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, TIME, and Foreign Policy, and contributed original content to NPR's Fresh Air. In 2016, he was honored with the Religion News Writer's Award for Religion Reporting Excellence. Haroon is the author of three previous books, including How to be a Muslim: An American Story, which the Washington Post called "an extraordinary gift...an authentic portrayal of a vastly misunderstood community." Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424
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.
3 events,
Shabbat Shazoom
Shabbat Shazoom
Family Services @Home: Shabbat ShaZoom Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community. Ages 4 and up, with families Meeting ID: 948 5607 0819 Passcode: 070298 https://zoom.us/j/94856070819?pwd=Smx5SEkxcWZsbjgvTjBFTi9rdlVMdz09
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Lunch Together Online with Theodore Goloff, “Bill 21, as it impacts the Jewish community and others.”
Lunch Together Online with Theodore Goloff, “Bill 21, as it impacts the Jewish community and others.”
Theodore Goloff, “Bill 21, as it impacts the Jewish community and others.” For over four decades, Theodore Goloff has focused his practice on the defence of employers’ rights in all aspects of labour and employment law. After joining Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP in 1996, he was both a senior partner and leader of the Labour and Employment Practice Group for nearly two decades. He is representing the Lord Reading Law Society before the Superior Court in the litigation ongoing regarding Bill 21. 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 […]
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Shabbat Special Live with Rona Nadler
Shabbat Special Live with Rona Nadler
Shabbat Shira: Sermon in Song with Rona Nadler Rona Nadler is the Music Director and Cantorial Soloist at Temple Emanu-El- Beth Sholom. Raised in a family of musicians, Rona enjoys a multi-faceted career in the Montreal music scene as a harpsichordist, vocalist, and music director. She has performed across the United States and Canada as a member of the quartet Infusion Baroque, while also serving as Artistic Director of the vocal ensemble One Equall Musick. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424
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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Shabbat Shazoom
Shabbat Shazoom
Family Services @Home: Shabbat ShaZoom Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community. Ages 4 and up, with families Meeting ID: 948 5607 0819 Passcode: 070298 https://zoom.us/j/94856070819?pwd=Smx5SEkxcWZsbjgvTjBFTi9rdlVMdz09
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Lunch Together Online with Dr. Donald Sheppard
Lunch Together Online with Dr. Donald Sheppard
Dr. Donald Sheppard, Director:McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity "What COVID taught me: A conversation with an infectious diseases doctor." Dr. Sheppard is a Professor and Chairman of the Department Microbiology & Immunology at McGill University in Montreal. He leads the Medical Mycology laboratory and practices clinical infectious diseases at the McGill University Health Centre where he served as the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases from 2012-2018. 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 […]
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Shabbat Special Live with Joseph Kaiser
Shabbat Special Live with Joseph Kaiser
Cantorial Soloist Internationally acclaimed Montreal-born tenor, Joseph Kaiser is frequently featured at the Metropolitan Opera and enjoys success in opera, oratorio, and concert throughout North America and Europe. He is widely recognized by audiences for his beauty of tone, innate sense of style and elegance. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/369264424 Meeting ID: 369264424 JOIN SERVICE
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.
3 events,
Shabbat Shazoom
Shabbat Shazoom
Family Services @Home: Shabbat ShaZoom Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community. Ages 4 and up, with families Meeting ID: 948 5607 0819 Passcode: 070298 https://zoom.us/j/94856070819?pwd=Smx5SEkxcWZsbjgvTjBFTi9rdlVMdz09
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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
Family Services: Shabbat ShaZoom
Enjoy songs, stories, and conversation with Temple and Torah School families
Saturdays at 11:45 am for singing, stories, and community.
Ages 4 and up, with families.
Torah Study, Saturdays at 9:00 am
Rosh Chodesh:
Rosh Chodesh Sh’Vat:
Thursday, January 14th, 9:00 AM
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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This program is supported by Linda Kivenko, in memory of her sister, Mona Kaufmann.
Tuesday, January 19th | 12 noon
Rona Nadler & Joseph Kaiser
Tuesday, January 26th | 12 noon
Theodore Goloff
Tuesday, February 2nd | 12 noon
Dr. Donald Sheppard
Monday, February 8th | 12 noon {Please note this will be held exceptionally on a Monday}
Louise Penny
Tuesday, February 16th | 12 noon
Dr. Laurie Betito
Tuesday, February 23rd | 12 noon
Nicole Beaudry, Eddie Paul, Eddie Stone
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.
