The long-dormant, controversial Jewish Defense League announced it would set up shop in Montreal next week despite opposition by local Jewish and Muslim groups. “There is no need for a Jewish self-defense group in Montreal,” said Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Jewish community’s main advocacy group, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, or CIJA….
When Dan Charbit and his wife, Gaelle Hazan, moved to Montreal from Paris two summers ago, it was meant to be a temporary fix — a year-long attempt for Charbit to reboot his stalled career as a special-effects artist in Quebec’s thriving film and television industry. They agreed to fly home if the experiment failed….
Mile End’s Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich Kit. Photograph courtesy of FoodyDirect. Back in March, the Forward reported that Houston deli extraordinaire Kenny & Ziggy’s had started shipping a Seder in a Box as part of its haimish offerings on specialty-food site FoodyDirect. Now, FoodyDirect’s Jewish quotient is getting upped again. Brooklyn’s own Mile End Deli…
Efforts to revive the Jewish Defense League in Montreal in the wake of a Gaza conflict-related surge in anti-Semitic incidents have gotten the cold shoulder from the city’s Jewish community. Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the Jewish community’s official advocacy body, called the group “marginal” and “superfluous.” The JDL…
Call it the world’s most local travel magazine. Every issue, Berlin-based Flaneur profiles one iconic street. And its latest issue — the first to look outside Germany — delves deep into Rue Bernard, the Montreal thoroughfare whose Jewish DNA stretches back a century. “It represents Montreal in a hyperlocal microcosm, meaning the street reflects the…
The Jewish Defense League of Canada wants to set up a chapter in Montreal, citing an increase in attacks on Jews. The national director of the Toronto-based JDL, Meir Weinstein, told local media he has been contacted by Montreal residents who would like to see a chapter set up in the city. In interviews, Weinstein…
David Azrieli, a real estate developer with major holdings in Israel, including the three geometric towers in the middle of Tel Aviv, has died. Azrieli, a billionaire philanthropist whose family’s foundation has given away an estimated $100 million, died near Montreal on Wednesday. He was 92. He was the founder and controlling shareholder of the…
It may not have built a brand as big as Schwartz’s, but Bens Delicatessen looms large in the history of Jewish Montreal — and in the city’s cultural lore. Once a working-class hangout, Bens grew to serve smoked meat and soups to celebs from Michael Jackson to Leonard Cohen to Catherine Deneuve in its ‘60s-‘70s…
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