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Members and visitors to the Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA on Westbury Avenue are celebrating the arrival of District Bagel. Back in 2017, I wrote about plans for a new kosher café/bistro
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.
He father hoped "she would come to appreciate the suffering that's going on in this world.”
A group of Montreal rabbis has travelled to the Polish-Ukrainian border to deliver supplies and help out – but also to see for themselves what more Canadians could be doing.