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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

Montreal

Pro-Palestinian 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
Screen capture from video of a pro-Palestinian protest outside a Jewish community center in Montreal, Canada, March 5, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 6, 2024, 9:17 pm
Pro-Palestinian mob blocks access to Montreal Holocaust Museum over pro-Israel event
Central Jewish community group denounces protest as deliberate intimidation of local Jews; police deploy in force to secure similar gathering at synagogue
By Stuart Winer
Students from North American universities listen to relatives of hostages in Gaza at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on December 27, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
December 30, 2023, 1:33 pm
US students touring Israel: Campus antisemitism is palpable, violent — and inescapable
Jews from top-tier American universities describe their experiences with hatred unleashed by the war with Hamas and its galvanizing effect on their communities
By Canaan Lidor
Lights from a police car illuminate Talmud Torah Elementary School as parents pick up their children in the Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on November 9, 2023. (Illustrative photo by Mathiew LEISER / AFP)
November 12, 2023, 8:29 pm
Jewish school in Montreal is fired upon for second time in days
Police say no one was in the Yeshiva Gedola when shots were heard around 5 a.m.; no reported injuries
By AFP and ToI Staff
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
The front doors of Congregation Beth Tikvah in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeau were hit with a firebomb, November 6, 2023. (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)
November 8, 2023, 3:21 am
Molotov cocktails thrown at Montreal-area synagogue and Jewish center
Investigators find broken bottles, burn marks on front door of Jewish house of worship in Dollard-des-Ormeau, as antisemitism incidents spike in wake of Hamas attack on October 7
By Gabe Friedman
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Ainsworth (C-L), China's Ecology and Environment Minister Huang Runqiu (C-R), Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Elizabeth Maruma Mrema (2nd R) and Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (R), during a plenary meeting during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Quebec, December 19, 2022. (Lars Hagberg/ AFP)
December 19, 2022, 10:23 pm
Countries reach major deal to safeguard nature at UN summit in Montreal
Envoys at COP15 Biodiversity Conference commit to protect 30% of environment vital for biodiversity by 2030, boost support for poorer countries by tens of millions of dollars
By Michael Casey
Leonard Cohen performs during the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, April 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
March 3, 2022, 8:32 pm
Previously unpublished Leonard Cohen novel set for fall release
‘A Ballet of Lepers’ containing a novel and 15 short stories, all written over a decade before the singer started his musical career, will be published in October
By Jessica Steinberg
A view of the future site of the Montreal Holocaust Museum on Saint-Laurent boulevard. (Dominic Lavoie via JTA)
February 19, 2022, 6:45 am
Montreal Holocaust Museum moving to new $80 million site in old Jewish quarter
Museum to relocate by 2025 to historical Plateau Mont-Royal quarter, once home to Jews who left Europe after the Holocaust
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
Thousands protest vaccine passports in Montreal, Canada, August 15, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)
August 15, 2021, 3:11 am
Yellow stars on display at Montreal protest against vaccine passport
Some evoke Holocaust imagery as thousands of Quebecers turn out to demonstrate against measure, set to come into effect next month
By AFP
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
Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Montreal. (Screen capture/Global News)
December 12, 2020, 2:16 am
Jewish nursing home in Montreal will be Quebec’s 1st to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Dozens have died of virus in Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre; staff and residents could begin receiving shots as early as Friday night
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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