Tag: Quebec

Former residents of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Rosalie Mednick Nepom, Sol Mednick, and Dr. Issac Katz, have compiled memories of the town's pioneering Jewish community in a new book to preserve its history.
A group of two dozen municipalities, including the heavily Jewish suburb of Cte Saint-Luc, has launched a legal challenge against Quebec's new French-language law, Bill 96, citing concerns over restrictions on English-speaking populations' access to government services for the next five years due to the notwithstanding clause being invoked.
Avi and Phoebe discuss the Quebec Premier's tweet celebrating the province's Catholic heritage despite his push for secularism, exemplified by Bill 21 banning religious symbols in the public sphere.
Gary Perlman, a retired software developer leading the Jewish Genealogical Society's cemetery project in Montreal, is preserving the history of nearly 80,000 Jews buried in Quebec.
In the Outremont neighborhood of Montreal, Hasidic residents have been praying on their balconies during COVID-19, creating a sense of harmony and cultural exchange.