100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount 100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives
Presentation of the 12 needlepoint Torah covers by the Sisterhood in honour of the Shaar’s 150th anniversary and the rededication of the chapel.
Rabbi David Woolfson served as the synagogue’s Ritual Director from 1993-2017.
Cantor Sidney Dworkin, Shaar Cantor 1985-2003.
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.
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 […]
Annie Saxe (1874-1943), served as the Women’s Auxiliary’s first president from 1921-1924.
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 […]
