100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount 100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives
The headline from an article in the Montreal Gazette (November 11, 1921) detailing the order of events at the laying of cornerstone ceremony for the Shaar Hashomayim’s building […]
A selection of the time capsule contents on the day it was opened, including four local newspapers from the day it was sealed (November 10, 1921) and five […]
The November 10, 1921, edition of the Keneder Adler (Jewish Daily Eagle), Canada’s Yiddish newspaper, found in the Shaar’s 1921 time capsule.
A call-out for volunteers in the Shaar’s weekly e-newsletter for the Shaar Cares initiative, which the synagogue put in place at the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
A special Passover program held during April 2020 to aid congregants prepare for the Passover seders. During the first Covid-19 lockdown, many were forced to organize their own […]
A letter from Rabbi Adam Scheier to the members of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim regarding the decision to cancel services after the Covid-19 Pandemic was declared a national emergency. […]
A map showing the boundaries of City of Westmount eruv which was established in 2008.
The front cover of the book “The Gate of Heaven: The Story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, 1846-1996”. The book is one of the most definitive and […]
The front page of the Westmount Examiner (1935-2015) on Thursday, January 22, 1998, about the shelter provided at the Shaar during the Ice Storm. Transcription: They cooked up […]
A selection of some of the letters of thanks received by the Shaar for the shelter that the congregation set up during the 1998 Ice Storm, as reprinted […]
The pamphlet distributed for the building extension campaign when it was first launched in 1965 with the aims of raising the necessary funds to begin construction. Transcription: […]
This letter from Rabbi Shuchat was found in a time capsule concealed in the cornerstone laid in 1967 as part of the building extension, later extracted in 2022. […]
