McGill University
Jewish Student Government Member Ordered To Cancel Israel Trip Or Resign
The trip, called “Face to Face,” leaves at the end of the month and includes visiting Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
Voting Pro-Israel Candidates Off Student Gov’t Wasn’t Anti-Semitic, McGill Says
The report asserted that anti-Semitism played no role in the removal of Jewish student Noah Lew from the Montreal school’s student government.
McGill Group Admits Using Anti-Semitic Propaganda To Defeat Jewish Student
“I was blocked from participating in student government because of my Jewish identity,” student Noah Lew wrote after the Student Society vote.
The Remarkable Career of Ruth Wisse, Yiddish Scholar and Political Firebrand
Ruth Wisse pioneered the academic study of Yiddish. As she approaches retirement, she talks about her brilliant literary career — and her right-wing political polemic.
Yiddish Montreal History Wins Book Award
A crowd will gather in downtown Toronto on June 7 for the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards. One of the winners will be Rebecca Margolis, an associate professor in the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program at the University of Ottawa, who will be honored for “Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011), a study of the development of Yiddish cultural life in Montreal in the first half of the 20th century. In the book, Margolis examines key cultural institutions like the press, the theater, literary publications and secular Jewish schools that built and sustained Yiddish Montreal.
Shabbat Done Sustainably
Walking inside from the cold wintery streets of Montréal, where the smell of onions and carrots fill the two-story shul, one can hear Friday night prayers ring out from a boisterous crowd of 20-somethings, excited university students and local community members welcoming the Shabbat Queen. The smells come from the Shabbat dinner last week, which consists of a warm chicken soup with kosher organic grain-fed chicken from a farm located in the Eastern Townships of Québec, a locally-grown bean puree and, “Spectacular Salsa” with local tomatoes, onions, and garlic, a cabbage salad with carrots and beets, and a frittata with mushrooms, onions, and eggs. And that’s just the first course.