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Figures representing National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and US President Donald Trump hang from nooses at an anti-Israel protest in Montreal, May 24, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 26, 2026, 3:06 pm
Anti-Israel protesters hang effigies of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Trump at Montreal rally
Canadian politicians call the display at demonstration on Sunday ‘disgusting, antisemitic and clear incitement’
By Zev Stub
A Jewish man, flanked by his daughter, is attacked and in Montreal, Canada, in a still image taken from a video filmed on August 8, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 10, 2025, 5:25 am
Montreal Police probing attack on Jewish man in front of his two children
Video circulating on social media shows assailant straddling man and beating him, before throwing his kippa into water; Carney decries ‘appalling act of violence’
By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Ohad Naharin, center, teaching a Gaga class, the body movement concept that he created. (Courtesy Gaga)
June 5, 2025, 1:02 am
Montreal dance studio joins Israel boycott, drops classes in Ohad Naharin’s Gaga technique
The decision by Studio 303 has triggered debate among its attendees, including Israelis, who question whether boycotting the pro-Palestinian Israeli choreographer ‘misses the mark’
By Grace Gilson
Damage caused by a firebomb at Beth Tikvah synagogue, Montreal, December 18, 2024. (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)
December 22, 2024, 6:26 pm
Canada launches forum for combating antisemitism following synagogue, school attacks
Many feel Ottawa has not done enough to stem the rising tide of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activities
By Zev Stub
Israel supporters observe a moment of silence as they attend a vigil outside McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on October, 7, 2024, to commemorate the victims of the October 7 massacre by Hamas on Israel. (Graham Hughes / AFP)
December 7, 2024, 3:32 am
264-year-old Montreal Jewish community fears antisemitism becoming the new normal
Latest incidents further fuel heightened anxiety over crisis in Canada’s second largest city as Jews face troubling questions about their community’s future
By Robert Sarner
Students and activists protest for an eighth day at an anti-Israel encampment on the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Alexis Aubin / AFP)
October 6, 2024, 5:16 pm
Jewish students say anti-Israel Oct. 7 events at Montreal campuses set to celebrate Hamas
Even after McGill and Concordia take measures to stem antisemitism on campus, protest groups continue to glorify terror a year after the Hamas massacre, putting local Jews on edge
By Eliyahu Freedman
Illustrative: A Canadian police car is seen near the Rainbow Bridge border crossing into the US in Niagara Falls, Ontario, November 22, 2023. (Usman Khan/AFP)
August 22, 2024, 1:56 am
Bomb threats emailed to over 100 Jewish institutions in Canada
Jewish community leaders say threat was ‘designed to disrupt lives,’ thank law enforcement for swift response; Trudeau decries ‘blatant antisemitism’ of targeted campaign
By ToI Staff
Birdseye view of the Belz Yeshiva Ketana in Montreal, Canada. (Belz fundraising video/YouTube)
May 31, 2024, 3:57 am
Montreal Jewish school hit by gunfire in second such attack in Canada within days
Police say at least one bullet hit Orthodox yeshiva less than week after two masked suspects opened fire at Chabad girls’ school in Toronto; no injuries in either incident
By JTA
Illustrative: Montreal police at a crime scene in Montreal, Quebec on November 13, 2020. (Andrej Ivanov / AFP)
November 10, 2023, 12:52 am
Shots fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal as antisemitism spikes in Canada
No injuries caused in attacks, which come days after a synagogue near the city was firebombed and clashes over Israel-Hamas war erupted on campus at Concordia University
By AFP and ToI Staff
Vandals defaced Quebec province’s oldest synagogue building with Nazi swastikas in March 2023 (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)
March 31, 2023, 12:20 pm
Montreal’s oldest synagogue building vandalized with swastikas
Canadian Jewish watchdog to call on city mayor Valérie Plante to do more to fight antisemitism
By David Lazarus
Lily Toth, left, in an undated photo with her parents prior to their deaths in 1944. (Courtesy of Toth/ via JTA)
May 18, 2022, 3:19 am
Holocaust survivor’s collection of over 1,000 miniature books reflect a sad chapter
Born in Budapest in 1925, Lilly Toth lost her family to the Nazis. The valuable texts, on display May 15 at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library, show her attachment to her native land
By Aviva Engel
Cecile Klein with her daughter Harriet Nussbaum (right) and granddaughter Elaine Nussbaum (left)
January 24, 2022, 8:40 am
Cecile Klein, Canada’s oldest person for 7 months, dies at 114
Asked how she lived so long, the Montreal native, who saw two pandemics and two world wars, attributed her old age to ‘good genes and sheer luck’
By CALEB GUEDES-REED
Illustrative: A protester holds a Yellow Star reading 'Not Vaccinated = Jew' as protesters take part in a demonstration in Milan on July 24, 2021, against the introduction of a mandatory 'green pass' for indoor dining and entertainment area, in the aim to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
September 4, 2021, 5:44 am
Montreal anti-vax leader drops yellow star, stands by Holocaust comparison
Director of city’s Holocaust museum Daniel Amar says many activists aren’t antisemitic and share a sense of victimhood — which is why further education is so important
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Swastikas were spray-painted on Montreal's Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's front doors, January 13, 2021. (Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center)
January 14, 2021, 5:37 pm
Man arrested after swastikas sprayed on Leonard Cohen’s Montreal synagogue
Suspect reportedly brought a canister of gasoline to the house of worship as well
By David Lazarus
Two customers from diverse backgrounds ready to place their orders at Cheskies. (Ezra Soiferman/ www.EzraSoiferman.com)
July 3, 2020, 4:12 pm
Crumbs of comfort: Montreal kosher bakery builds bridges, one babka at a time
A la ‘Seinfeld,’ Montreal institution Boulangerie Cheskie unites the diverse — and occasionally quarrelsome — residents of Outremont with rugelach and black & white cookies
By Aviva Engel
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