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 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: […]
The souvenir booklet from the Pavilion of Judaism at Expo 67. The idea for the Pavilion was conceived of by the Shaar’s Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat.
The front cover of the programme for the first B’not Mitzvah (group Bat Mitzvah) ceremony held at the Shaar in 1961. Transcription Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Chanukah Service and […]
An architectural drawing of the facade for the Rabbi Herman Abramowitz Educational Annex (M. M. Kalman, Architect), reproduced in the programme for the building’s dedication ceremony.
The Shabbat Shirah (Sabbath of Song) supplement, which describes the music for the special service.
The programme cover for the special service held in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. The document is written in both English and Hebrew. The document […]
