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Adath Israel
Adath Israel was established in 1930. The congregation worshipped in rented premises at 1357 Van Horne until the construction of the synagogue in 1940 at...
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Religious
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Adath Yeshurun (Russian Hebrew Synagogue)
Historic outline The Adath Yeshurun was established in about 1908 by Lithuanian Jews. Abandoning the original rented premises on St. Lawrence and Pine, the congregation...
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Anshei Ozeroff
Historic outline The Anshei Ozeroff represents a typical landsmanshaft shul. Like the landsmanshaftn, the immigrant mutual aid societies, the landsmanshaft shul was formed by people...
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Rabbi Simon Glazer - Residence
From the time of his arrival in Canada in 1907, this populist Orthodox rabbi cut a controversial figure in Montreal’s Jewish community. Born in 1878...
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Admor of Montreal, Rabbi David Flaum - Residence
Hasidism, a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, developed in Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century as a spiritual response to overly meticulous religious practices. Sects quickly...
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Admor of Montreal, Rabbi David Flaum - Besdovitch Synagogue
Hasidism, a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, developed in Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century as a spiritual response to overly meticulous religious practices. Sects quickly...