100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount 100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives
Cantor Segal (1918-38)
Featuring the Shaar Hashomayim Choir, the musical arrangement describes the following: It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and its supporters are praiseworthy. Its […]
Stephen Glass, Music Director, 1990-2014.
The whole ensemble from the Shaar Hashomayim 150th Anniversary Concert (1995).
Julius Suss (Shaar President, 2019-2022) and Rabbi Adam Scheier remove the 1921 time capsule from the cornerstone.
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 […]
Rabbi Shuchat’s family unveils the plaque dedicating the sanctuary in his memory at the re-dedication service (September 17, 2022), honouring 100 years of the Shaar in Westmount. Shaar […]
The re-dedication of the synagogue’s sanctuary held on September 17, 2022. This included a re-creation of the inaugural service held 100 years prior on September 17, 1922.
The Shaar’s 1921 time capsule, embedded in the back of the synagogue building’s original cornerstone.
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.
