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(Courtesy of Congregation Beth Aaron) As part of Congregation Beth Aaron’s year-long 50th anniversary celebration, CBA held its first official shulwide chesed day on Sunday, May 1. Inspired by shul member Micah Kaufman and his mission of encouraging communities to do more chesed, CBA leadership together with the 50th anniversary celebration committee put together a list of several volunteer opportunities for its membership to choose from.
Since 2005, many congregations have designated a Shabbat in the spring, usually coordinating with Yom Ha’Zikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, as Shabbat Chayal in support of IDF soldiers in their defense of Medinat Yisrael.
Montrealers gathered Tuesday night in person at Côte St. Luc's Beth Israel Beth Aaron Synagogue, and via Zoom, for a quickly organized prayer vigil after 11 Israelis were killed and
From the troubling to the uplifting, we've all been flooded with stories and images coming out of Russia and Ukraine in the past three weeks. Many people, safely in Montreal, feel that all they can do is doomscroll or watch the news. For three Montreal-based rabbis, this simply wasn't enough. They went to Poland to help refugees fleeing Ukraine, and have now come home to share what they saw.
Three Montreal rabbis have returned from a trip to Poland helping Ukrainian refugees cross into the country — and now they're sharing their experience.