100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount 100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives
The 1960 graduating class of the Shaar’s Hebrew Religious School.
The cast picture for the 1940 Purim Shpiel “A Merry Happy Purim”. Purim shpiels are plays or skits that are performed on the Jewish Holiday of Purim, and […]
Group portrait of the Shaar’s choir in the 1950s. Sitting front row, centre is long-time Choir Director, Professor Jacob Rosemarin, who composed and arranged many original liturgical pieces […]
Major Moses O. Kirsch (centre) who served in World War I, with his nephews Arthur, Lionel, and Sidney Kirsch who served in the Canadian Armed Forces in World […]
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (front row, centre)- the first Chief Rabbi of Palestine from 1921-1935 – visited Montreal in 1924 as part of a fundraising campaign for institutions […]
