The gate of heaven : the story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, 1846-1996 / Wilfred Shuchat.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Rabbi Shuchat tells of the emergence of Shaar Hashomayim as a congregation separate from the older Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, the generation-long tension between the two congregations, and the rebellion that produced the Temple Emanu-El

He describes how the struggle for Jewish educational rights ultimately produced a real public school system in Quebec as well as other unsung achievements of Montreal Jewry - the Board of Jewish Ministers, the de Sola Club, the Religious Welfare Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Pavilion at Expo '67, and the Jewish Introduction Service."--Jacket

CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 The Early Days of Montreal Jewry -- 2 The Origins of the Shaar -- 3 The Community and the Congregation in the 1870s to 1890s -- 4 The Synagogue Service and the Leadership in the 1880s and 1890s -- 5 The Early Abramowitz Years: To the First World War -- 6 The First World War Years -- 7 To Kensington and Cote St-Antoine: Events of the 1920s -- 8 The Years of Great Growth -- 9 The Last Abramowitz Decade: From the 1930s to the 1940s -- 10 The Second World War

11 The Centennial Year12 The Montreal Jewish Community in the Post-War Years -- 13 The First Years of the Shuchat Rabbinate: From the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s -- 14 Congregational Diversity -- 15 Anniversaries, Camp Ramah, and Religious Developments in the Later 1950s -- 16 Ongoing Projects: The Home Study Groups, the Talmud Study Group, and the Charity Funds -- 17 Bursting at the Seams: The Early 1960s -- 18 The Day-School Crisis -- 19 In the Throes of a Building Expansion: The Late 1960s -- 20 Transitions -- 21 Confrontation in the Synagogue

22 A New Decade -- A New Beginning: The Early 1970s23 The Young and the Old: The Second Half of the 1970s -- 24 The Young and the Old Continued -- 25 The Rabbi and the Community -- 26 The Pavilion of Judaism at Expo '67 -- 27 The Shaar Israel Project -- 28 The Jewish Introduction Service -- 29 The Shaar and the Jewish Theological Seminary -- 30 Highlights of the Eighties -- 31 Rabbis, Cantors, and Others -- 32 Does Shaar Hashomayim Have an Ideology? -- 33 Rabbi Shuchat Retires -- 34 The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary

EPILOGUE: Rabbi Shuchat's Concluding ThoughtsPOSTSCRIPT -- APPENDIX A: The Reorganizational Meeting of 12 September 1858 -- APPENDIX B: Congregation Presidents, 1860-1995 -- APPENDIX C: Sisterhood Presidents, 1921-1993 -- APPENDIX D: Men's Association Presidents, 1949-1994 -- APPENDIX E: Junior Congregation Presidents, 1928-1976 -- APPENDIX F: Congregants Who Lost Their Lives in War -- APPENDIX G: Congregational Officers and Members of the Order of the British Empire, the Order of Canada, and the Ordre National du Quebec

APPENDIX H: Simchat Torah Honourees, 5716-5760APPENDIX I: Sisterhood Torah Fund Honourees 1963-1994 -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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