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  • Toronto’s Jews Think Big As Their Population Grows (2000) May 26, 2023
  • 1931 Census is Coming Soon! May 26, 2023
  • The Jewish Community of Rouyn-Noranda May 10, 2023
  • Update on ‘The Unbroken Chain’ (2023) March 30, 2023
  • Famous personalities in The Unbroken Chain March 30, 2023
  • A Nazi Rally in Montreal, 1938 January 11, 2023
  • Elephantine Island: the Jews who returned to Egypt January 11, 2023
  • Remembering Barbara Frum, CBC broadcaster (1937-1992) January 11, 2023
  • Book looks at Jewish taverns in Kingdom of Poland January 9, 2023
  • Fine telling of the Reichmann saga January 9, 2023
  • Breakthrough: Jumping Back 36 Generations January 8, 2023
  • Ontario puts new restrictions on birth records (2016) January 8, 2023

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Toronto’s Jews Think Big As Their Population Grows (2000)

by Bill Gladstone • May 26, 2023

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 24, 2000 (JTA) The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto is trying to keep pace with the city’s growing Jewish population through a massive building and revitalization project. The most recent is a $150-million Jewish campus in the York region, the area just north of the city that is home…

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1931 Census is Coming Soon!

by Bill Gladstone • May 26, 2023

26 May 2023 Census enumerators across Canada were busy on June 1, 1931, going door to door to gather 40 fields of personal information about 10,376,379 Canadians, including family names and relationships, age, gender, occupation, employment status, racial origin and whether the family had acquired a radio. Having sat in a vault for the past…

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Update on ‘The Unbroken Chain’ (2023)

by n-a • March 30, 2023

New Volumes Published March 30, 2023 Dr. Neil Rosenstein, author of the newly-updated The Unbroken Chain recently announced publication of new volumes in the massive work. Rosenstein is one of the foremost Jewish genealogists in America today, with an internationally acclaimed expertise in the genealogy of rabbinic dynastic families. The Unbroken Chain deals uniquely with…

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A Nazi Rally in Montreal, 1938

by n-a • January 11, 2023

As reported in The Montreal Gazette (1938) This shocking photograph was taken at a fascist rally on Wellington Street, Montreal, on May 11, 1938. Inspired by Germany’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party and Italy’s Fascists, Quebec’s National Socialist Christian Party was a strongly antisemitic and anticommunist group led by Adrien Arcand. Party enforcers were called blueshirts,…

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Elephantine Island: the Jews who returned to Egypt

by Bill Gladstone • January 11, 2023

Eight centuries after Moses led the Children of Israel from Egypt, a Jewish community thrived on Elephantine Island, a small isle on the Nile in Southern Egypt near the present-day Aswan. Archaeologists date the origin of the Elephantine community to the dispersion and exile of the Jews from ancient Israel following the destruction of the…

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Book looks at Jewish taverns in Kingdom of Poland

by Bill Gladstone • January 9, 2023

Book Review: Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, & Life in the Kingdom of Poland. By Glenn Dynner. Oxford University Press, 2014. Despite various expulsions, evictions and repressive tax measures meant to force them out of business, Jewish-run taverns were a ubiquitous presence in Poland from roughly the 17th to the late 19th centuries. Polish historians have often…

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Fine telling of the Reichmann saga

by Bill Gladstone • January 9, 2023

◊ In light of the passing of Albert Reichmann in Toronto on December 17, 2022 at age 93, we bring your attention to this review of the most thorough biography of the Reichmann family, Anthony Bianco’s The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune and The Empire of Olympia & York.  As Brooklyn-based author Anthony Bianco chronicles in his…

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Breakthrough: Jumping Back 36 Generations

by Bill Gladstone • January 8, 2023

From Inside Toronto (2017) My niece Katie gave birth to her first child recently (a boy) and she suddenly realized how little she knew about her ancestors, especially on her father’s side. Since I’m the family genealogist and a professional one to boot, I gladly volunteered to research her antecedants. Little did I realize that…

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Baby born at sea amidst Ukrainian rescue

by n-a • December 9, 2022

by Gaye Applebaum From the Canadian Jewish News, 1983 As the SS Hamilton Scandinavian docked at Quebec City on Aug. 21, 1921, a tremor of excitement surged through the rain-drenched crowd. On the ship’s deck huddled 108 frightened but excited Ukrainian Jewish children – all of them rescued war orphans from the devastated Polish Ukraine.…

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A Jewish lawyer’s sage observations about divorce (1982)

by n-a • December 7, 2022

From Canadian Jewish News, 1982 Marriage may be likened to a city besieged: those without despair of getting in, those within despair of getting out. – Abraham Drayanov I have often wondered who makes couples happier, the rabbis who marry them or the lawyers who obtain their divorce. But this sentiment notwithstanding, the smoothest of…

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Toronto’s Jews Think Big As Their Population Grows (2000)

1931 Census is Coming Soon!

The Jewish Community of Rouyn-Noranda

Update on ‘The Unbroken Chain’ (2023)

Famous personalities in The Unbroken Chain

A Nazi Rally in Montreal, 1938

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