For generations, Jewish tradition has played a leading role in Montreal’s cultural identity. Whether it’s the tender sesame bagels or smoked meat on rye, some of the city’s most iconic foods have strong and enduring Jewish roots. Since the Museum of Jewish Montreal began just over a decade ago, we’ve...
Join us in welcoming back Professor Karen Herland for a special walking tour of Montreal’s historic Red Light District! Sex work, especially in its most visible forms, tends to be recognized as a problem, requiring intervention and eradication. As a major transportation hub and port city, many sectors of Montreal’s...
Lovingly crafted from sparkling water, fresh fruits, herbs, spices and syrups, gazoz is a beverage unlike any other. These bouquet-like drinks are available in nearly every colour of the rainbow, with every fragrant flavour you could possibly imagine. With a history dating back many decades in Tel Aviv, gazoz has...
Join us in welcoming back Professor Karen Herland for a special walking tour of Montreal’s historic Red Light District! Sex work, especially in its most visible forms, tends to be recognized as a problem, requiring intervention and eradication. As a major transportation hub and port city, many sectors of...
On August 31 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Naomi Gwynn will be joined by Horizons Collectif (Lou Salem and Adele Ross) to host a 2-hour contemporary movement and creation workshop open to all levels! This workshop, hosted at Espace 215, will focus heavily on sensory-based movement research and utilize choreographic and...
Join us on September 13th at 7:30pm for Hidden Twins: A New Play Reading, inspired by the true story of Vera and Nadia Debnar, and the final instalment of our 2021 Independent Microgrants for Creative and Cultural Exploration, presented at the Segal Centre Identical twins, Vera and Nadia's love of...
Along Boulevard St-Laurent and across Montreal, many Jewish-owned restaurants have generously shared their creations with locals and visitors alike. How can restaurants old and new continue to tell the story of Jewish culture in the city? At Beautys Luncheonette in the heart of the Plateau, patrons are treated to breakfast...
Are you looking for a new recipe to prepare for your friends and loved ones this Hanukkah? in partnership with Festival Sefarad de Montréal, join the Museum of Jewish Montreal with cookbook author Sina Mizrahi to learn how to prepare sfenj (sfinj), or Moroccan doughnuts. Coming off the release of...
In this special one-hour virtual event, the Museum of Jewish Montreal and theatre dybbuk team up to celebrate the release of a new episode of the podcast, The Dybbukast, which explores the life and music of Jewish Moroccan music star and Montreal-based cantor, Samy Elmaghribi (1922-2008). Born Salomon Amzallag, Samy's journey moves through a broad...
Click here to reserve your free ticket via JLive. In the days leading up to Hanukkah, TV personality, cookbook author, and artist Bob Blumer will show us how to prepare waffle latkes and gravlax, straight from his recent cookbook, Flavorbomb. Join us as we revisit this classic Hanukkah dish with Bob's whimsical spin! In...
What better way to ring in the Festival of Lights than with testing your knowledge with some trivia? Join us for our first in-person party since 2020! On the fifth night of Hanukkah, come on down to the location of the iconic Moishe’s Steakhouse, a true heritage site within the...
Season’s Greetings! This is a tale about two holidays, celebrated by people of different faiths. But while Christmas and Chanukkah honour distinct events that happened thousands of years ago, their close arrival in the early, dark days of winter mean that many families end up twinning the two. With an increase...
Needlework is woven into the fabric of Jewish art and culture. It is the fertile land of mysticism and creativity – just looking and reading doesn’t let you know why. On Sunday, February 13, join us with Claire Sigal as we practice and ponder the histories of Jewish needlework. Coming from...
Ladino is a language that brings together Spanish grammar with vocabulary and ideas from Hebrew, Turkish, French and various other languages of the Eastern Mediterranean. The joy and wisdom of this language is stored within its numerous, colourful, funny, and often musical sayings and proverbs. There has recently been a wave...
Dearly Beloved: Important religious texts are often buried among people, and sometimes given headstones. This book is having a shiva. On March 23, we invite you with Sonia Bazar to come pay your respects to Pathways. Pathways is a short self-published book of art and poetry. Pathways explores the physical...
Join the cast and crew members of an in-development web series, tentatively titled Mazel for a script reading of an episode, during which the community will be given the opportunity to provide feedback and insight into what they would like to see from sapphic media. Mazel follows two young women, Miriam and...
Like the Jewish people, the oud found a home in a diverse range of countries. From North Africa, through the Middle East, and up into the Caucasus and Balkans. For this reason, it is a wonderful vessel by which to explore the life of many Jewish populations from around the...
Join us in welcoming back Professor Karen Herland for a special walking tour of Montreal’s historic Red Light District! Sex work, especially in its most visible forms, tends to be recognized as a problem, requiring intervention and eradication. As a major transportation hub and port city, many sectors of Montreal’s...