Thursday, April 10
YAD@ LE CAFÉ NIGHT
The Young Adult Division of Federation CJA meets at Le Café, 5700 Westbury Ave., from 4-6 p.m. Contact Fabienne Salem at 514-345-2645, ext. 6402, or email [email protected].
Friday, April 11
GUEST SERMON
The guest sermonizer at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom services at 5:45 p.m. is Archdeacon William Gray of St. George’s Anglican Church at Place du Canada. Rev. Gray is also the territorial archdeacon for Bedford, Que., and the Richelieu region, overseeing Anglican churches on the South Shore and Eastern Townships in the Anglican Diocese of Montreal. For details, contact Rosie at 514-937-3575, ext. 213, or email [email protected].
Sunday, April 13
MUSICAL FUNDRAISER
The Segal Centre presents its fifth Community Musical Fundraiser with a tribute to The Beatles, called “Come Together,” 1:30-3 p.m. The event is aimed at providing “accessibility to the arts” and gives volunteer performers an opportunity to strut their stuff on the Segal stage with a “rocking tribute to the Fab Four.” The event will combine song, dance, and video. For details, contact Émilie Hervieux at 514-739-2301, or email [email protected].
Monday, April 14
MADA PASSOVER
Some 5,000 free Passover meals for an expected 2,500 people will be served at 10 locations around the island for the two seders at 7:30 p.m. organized by the MADA kosher soup kitchen and conducted at each by a rabbi and chazzan. The seders are open to any Jew who would not otherwise be able to attend a seder. The locations are: MADA headquarters, 6700 Cote des Neiges; Gelber Conference Centre, 5151 Cote Ste. Catherine Rd.; Residence Salomon, 5900 Decarie Blvd.; Chabad of NDG, 4900 Hingston Ave.; Chabad of Montreal West, 5400 Robert Burns; Chabad Mile-End, 5704 Waverly; Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation, 6800 Mackle Rd.; The Chevra, 5237 Clanranald; Beth Ora Congregation, 2600 Badeaux; and Chabad of Kirkland, 4491 Blvd. Saint-Charles. For reservations and tickets, call 514-342-4969, ext. 223, or visit www.madacenter.com.
TEMPLE E SEDER
Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom hosts its own festive Passover seder, starting with services at 5:45 p.m. and the seder at 6:30 p.m. To reserve, call 514-937-3575, ext. 213, or email [email protected].
SOBER SEDER
Chabad Lifeline at 4615 Cote Ste. Catherine Rd. hosts a Super Sober (alcohol free) Passover seder, 7 p.m. The focus will be on the transition from slavery to freedom for those in recovery from addiction. Call 514-738-7700 for details or to reserve.
Tuesday, April 15
CHABAD TMR SEDER
Chabad of the Town at 4054 Jean Talon St. W. hosts a community second seder led by Rabbi Moshe Krasnanski and his family with Rabbi Zalmy Rader and his family. For details, contact Chana at 514-342-1770, or email [email protected].
Thursday, April 17
GENOCIDAL TRAUMA
The Jewish Public Library (JPL), Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors, and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre are partnered for the community book launch of Recovery from Genocidal Trauma by Myra Giberovitch, a daughter of Holocaust survivors and social worker who has spent her life working on survivor and survivor family issues, 7 p.m. at the JPL. Her book is described as, “an essential tool for anyone who studies, interacts, lives, or works with survivors of mass atrocity,” and as a “comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs.” For details, call 514-342-1234.
THIRD NIGHT SEDER
YAD’s FedNext of Federation CJA holds a JEM “third night seder,” 5 p.m. Email [email protected].
…Et Cetera…
NEW JCF SCHOLARSHIP
The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal recently announced the launch of a new scholarship called the Stephen Bronfman Scholarship Fund in Environmental Studies, launched by Stephen Bronfman and his wife Claudine. The scholarship will be awarded to university students who share concerns for the environment, with two one-time scholarships awarded each year: $2,500 for first-year undergraduate students to reduce tuition fees and $7,500 as a second-year graduate scholarship to help enrich research. Stephen Bronfman will personally be involved in the selection of recipients. To apply, visit jcfmontreal.org/environment.
WEIZMANN SHOWDOWN
Last month at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, one Montreal and one Toronto team competed in a two-day international physics tournament involving some 40 international teams. Montreal’s St. George’s School finished in eighth place while Yeshivat Or Chaim Team 2 finished fourth. To get to Israel, the two Canadian schools had earlier won Weizmann Canada’s 18th annual Shalheveth Freier Physics Tournament qualifying rounds, and the trip’s expenses to and in Israel were covered by Weizmann Canada donors.
AEROBICS & YOGA
Ruth Dranov leads popular aerobics and yoga sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 a.m.-noon at the Creative Social Centre, 5237 Clanranald Ave. Call 514-488-0907, or email [email protected].
HEBREW FOUNDATION HELP
Some Grade 4 girls from Hebrew Foundation School, inspired by teacher Stuart Cohen’s English class, recently took it upon themselves to initiate and run their own fundraiser for the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation. They decided to sell their handmade crafts such as “rainbow loom” bracelets and duct tape wallets to their classmates, while student services director Tina Roth helped them make business cards and order forms. The result? They ended up raising more than $600, which was picked up personally by the hospital foundation’s Josie Pizzuco.
APRIL FOOL’S DAY PRANK
As an April Fool’s Day prank, the Jewish General Hospital issued an April 1 “press release” describing an “innovative plan” to house a “Medicasino” inside Pavilion K, site for its new ER. The “fast-track” construction promised to reap $50 million, “with annual jackpots of $150 million thereafter.” Quoted were spokesperson “Sylvie de Ceiver” (deceiver, get it?), “Benjamin Aprille,” director of a program informally known as “Aprille FOOL,” and nurse “Tiffany Bluffer.”
CHABAD LIFELINE
The non-sectarian Chabad Lifeline for anyone affected by addictions, offers a Group Dynamics for Families workshop for family members who need support in dealing with the chaos that comes with addiction, on Tuesdays, 1:30-3 p.m… also offered is a Women’s 12-step co-dependency workshop on Wednesdays 1-2:30 p.m. For details or to register, call Karen Bresinger at 514-738-7700. Chabad Lifeline needs volunteers/receptionist. Call Ruth at the same number.
TENNIS PLAYER PREVAILS
Provincially ranked junior tennis player Sarah Levy, 14, of Cote St. Luc recently prevailed in St. Eustache at an age group tournament. In the round for girls 14-16, Levy defeated Camilia Tobar 6-1, 6-0 in the semifinals, and then went on to beat Julia Tcherkas 8-2, 6-1 to win the title. n