100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount 100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives
Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold, Associate Rabba (2013-2023). She joined the Shaar in 2013, becoming the first ordained Orthodox woman of the clergy team of an Orthodox-practicing synagogue.
Presentation of the 12 needlepoint Torah covers by the Sisterhood in honour of the Shaar’s 150th anniversary and the rededication of the chapel.
Donor Luncheon, April 18, 1983.
The Sisterhood’s organizing committee for the 1967 Menorah Ball, held on Chanukah.
The Shaar’s Sisterhood, organizing meals-on-wheels in 1991.
Mildred B. Lande, C.M. (1913-2011), served as the Shaar’s President from 1984-7, becoming the first woman to fill this role in the synagogue’s history.
The B’not Mitzvah group of 1965. The group bat mitzvah ceremony was introduced at the Shaar just 4 years prior.
Annie Saxe (1874-1943), served as the Women’s Auxiliary’s first president from 1921-1924.
