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Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44508
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 1 min 22 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 320
- Date
- 2002
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 1 min 22 sec
- Date
- 2002
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 320
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Interview with artist Terry Lightman, a long-time curator of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Library. Many of her works are shown in this video clip.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJtC9LLn6DQBatshaw Interview - I
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44651
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Large can containing 3 rolls (2 sync, 1 visual); English; 16 mm; 14 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-2
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Large can containing 3 rolls (2 sync, 1 visual); English; 16 mm; 14 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-2
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Director of Jewish Community Services Mr. Manuel Batshaw responds to numerous questions regarding the Sephardic Jewish community from North Africa and how they were received by Montreal's community and its leaders. Bensimon's questions suggest a real schism between the two communities and how they saw each other. Batshaw confides about some of the difficulties that both sides had to overcome for a better dialogue and responds to questions about the impact of Maimonides School built exclusively through Sephardic support, the francophone element as to how it effected changes at Jewish summer camps, and other related issues. Some of the sections of the visual interview are missing though the sound is in sync.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Blowing of the Shofar
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44499
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 30.83 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 224
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 30.83 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 224
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The shofar is blown as an awakening sign and an encouragement for reflection.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Blowing of the Shofar
https://www.youtube.com/embed/So-XJJLFNVUBureaux JIAS (JIAS Offices)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44679
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 rolls (small) sync sound 16 mm.; French; 16 mm; 12:47 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-29
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 rolls (small) sync sound 16 mm.; French; 16 mm; 12:47 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-29
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Outs of footage from P-1060-27 with Jewish family at JIAS offices. In this material, other families are presented in voice-over sound with lots of images missing. In one sequence, a younger JIAS male counselor lists some of the services the new immigrants can access. They include, among others: housing information on leasing, a drop-in centre for women to help them adapt to new food, shopping, etc., summer camp for children, and information on various religious and secular public schools available for the children. There are also shots of the waiting room and other clients, a receptionist and an older and younger male counselor at work.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Casa Pedro
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44659
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Good condition. 2 rolls of sync and 1 cutaway roll; French; 16 mm; 34 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-10
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Good condition. 2 rolls of sync and 1 cutaway roll; French; 16 mm; 34 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-10
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- A group of 7 to 8 Moroccan Jewish men at Casa Pedro discuss the pros and cons of various aspects of their experiences in trying to integrate into Quebec society. Much joking. Some, more integrated than others, explain their firsthand accounts. They touch upon the taboo of intermarriage, the specific problems of being seen as Jews versus as Moroccans, the need to find a sense of belonging, comparisons with Ontario's Sephardic Jews who blended in with the English, and some unanswered questions about their place in Quebec, should it become independent. The sequence ends with their playing a video game and walking as a group down a street in the evening. Disappointing both in content and general comprehension, but one or two revealing details can be assumed from this collection of representative Moroccan men.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Children and the Synagogue
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44503
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 15 sec.
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 257
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 15 sec.
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 257
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Millie Lande, C.M., comments about the role of the synagogue in children's lives.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Children and the Synagogue
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iTMo4iX0jdgCirconcision (Circumcision)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44663
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- French & Hebrew; 16 mm; 7:29 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-14
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- French & Hebrew; 16 mm; 7:29 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-14
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Beautiful Moroccan chanting and Hebrew prayers of the minyan gathered for the circumcision. The baby is brought out in the customary long robe by the father and passed to the mohel, the man who will perform the procedure. As prayers continue, the camera zooms in on the tiny penis being prepared. Prayers continue without image and resume with Jacques Bensimon asking a French-Canadian woman for her impressions. Then people eating from a long table of food. Cutaway reel shows the mohel sterilizing his instruments, close-up of the baby, various guests and a bleached-blond woman, presumably the mother, feeding a baby bottle of milk to calm the child. The whole sequence is choppy. More footage of waiting guests, then leaving.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CKAC et après (CKAC and after)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44653
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 16 mm sync & non-sync material; French; 16 mm; 12.5 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-4
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 16 mm sync & non-sync material; French; 16 mm; 12.5 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-4
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- CKAC outs -- Lison Chocron, Raphael Mergui and Mathieu Rioux of CKAC. Bits and pieces of conversations with many responses cut off. Topics include: the founding of the Jewish community in Quebec, the work of AJCS, which founded the 23 Jewish community groups, Canadian Jewish Congress, the different histories of Ashkenazi and Oriental Jews, the working class background of most Sephardic Jews in Montreal -- this by Raphael Mergui, who contradicts Ms. Chocron's opinion of who constitutes the bulk of Oriental Jews.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CKAC et après - I (CKAC and after - I)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44670
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 A & B rolls; French; 16 mm; 40 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-1
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 A & B rolls; French; 16 mm; 40 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-1
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Lison Chocron and Raphael Mergui talk with Matthias Rioux on CKAC call-in radio show Quebec Aujourd'hui. Alternating with Ms. Chocron's fellow male activists/organizers of Sephardic origin as they critique the pros and cons of doing the show. Topics of discussion include: francophone Jews in Quebec, their failure to support Bill 22, Jewish stereotypes in Quebec presented by Rioux, minority status, marriage patterns of Sephardic Jews versus English Jews in Quebec, JIAS, Canadian Jewish Congress, and various activities and goals of francophone Jewish organizations, a short history of the first Jews to Quebec and their dilemma between Catholic and Protestant groups, social problems of adaptation and assimilation to the existing Jewish establishment and Quebec integration.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Choir
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44495
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 51.32 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 219
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 51.32 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 219
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- This video shows the Shaar Hashomayim choir singing, as well as Mrs. Millie Lande discussing the beauty of the Congregation's choir.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Choir
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iW23vqbzv5Y
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Programs for Elderly People
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44497
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : English : duration: 28.67 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 222
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : English : duration: 28.67 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 222
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- "The Open Gate" is a weekly socializing program for the elderly, organized by the Congregation.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Programs for Elderly People
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fZ6e_IpxxtcCongrès - Fédération
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44673
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 large sync (A & B), 2 smaller (C), 1 small compilation 11 mm. (A & B); French; 16 mm; 22:3 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-23
- Date
- June 8, 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 large sync (A & B), 2 smaller (C), 1 small compilation 11 mm. (A & B); French; 16 mm; 22:3 min.
- Date
- June 8, 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-23
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Most of this material is end or start marks for sync sound/camera shot during the Federation (see P-0160-21 and P-0160-22 for fuller clips of speakers). In this reel, there are glimpses of James Dahan, Raphael Mergui, Charles Delmar and re-elected president Elias Malka, who is honoured by the community and awarded a gift of thanks. Some motions are proposed and voted upon, and there still remains a sense of chaotic disagreement between various factions in the community and its speakers. In the smaller Roll 2, Elias Malka, the elected leader of Montreal's Sephardic community, and Raphael Mergui, sociologist and critic of the Jewish establishment, both give their take on the situation of Israel's Sephardim - neither position is in the final film.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Conversion – Mariage mixte (mixed marriage)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44658
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 medium-sized rolls of 16 mm sync sound; English, French, Hebrew; 16 mm; 18 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-9
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 medium-sized rolls of 16 mm sync sound; English, French, Hebrew; 16 mm; 18 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-9
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Bride-to-be Louise speaks with Rabbi Howard Joseph at the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue with regard to her upcoming marriage. Intercut with shots of her in his office. What is explained about the ceremony is then performed. The veiling of the bride after their signing of the marriage contract (ketubah), the two glasses of wine, the Hebrew ceremony, the guests being greeted by the new bride and groom. The name of the groom: Jacob Benabu.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Cours d’anglais (English course)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44681
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 large sync 16 mm. reels and small cutaway; French & Engish; 16 mm; 22:31 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-31
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 large sync 16 mm. reels and small cutaway; French & Engish; 16 mm; 22:31 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-31
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- New French Moroccan immigrants study English with teacher in a JIAS boardroom by repeating phrases and exchanging with teacher. A couple also are interviewed in the second half of the film on learning English, reactions to anti-Semitism, the Canadian Jewish experience in Montreal as seen by the two participants. An older woman watches them speak. Some segments of the interviews are missing - they talk about the Sephardic community in Montreal, JIAS, a comparison between the Quebec and Palestinian independence. Also an interview with the English teacher and her sense of the community. (Montreal Catholic School Commission pays for teachers, but JIAS also provides location and convenience for Jewish participants in the area.)
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Dedication by John Moss
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44496
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.10 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 220
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.10 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 220
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The dedication for the consecration of the Shaar Hashomayim in 1886, written by John Moss, is read in this video.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Dedication by John Moss
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cl8RBeGyjNIEcole Maimonides – avec et sans Lison (with and without Lison)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44657
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Sync material/large roll; French; 16 mm; 32:40 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-8
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Sync material/large roll; French; 16 mm; 32:40 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-8
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- Lison Chocron and Sephardic children in school bus on way to Maimonides School. Shots in sequence include: arrival of children; inside a typical classroom as they sing a Hebrew song; hallways between classes; Chocron entering a classroom and talking to teacher about dietary confusion of children; the teacher teaching about Passover (Pesach); a sequence with older children learning French composition; a sequence in the lunchroom with children at tables opening their lunch boxes and eating; children in the playground with ropes, playing hopscotch, dancing in circles, and milling about in front of the school.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
The effects of September 11, 2001
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44500
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.88 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 225
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.88 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 225
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Mrs. Millie Lande discusses the events of September 11th in relation to the Shaar Hashomayim Congregation. Mrs. Lande states, “We must have faith that we can go forward and we can still do and fulfill the dreams that all of us have for the synagogue.”
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
The effects of September 11, 2001
https://www.youtube.com/embed/V0hr1R1_44YElderly people's activities at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44494
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 18.11 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 218
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 18.11 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 218
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The Congregation offers elderly people a range of socializing activities. One woman explains them in the following way, “Sunday can be the loneliest day in the week, so we are able to get up, get dressed, put on your makeup and away we go.”
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Elderly people's activities at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GzEkLUktQBsFédération – Bobine (Reel) 2
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44671
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 4 reels - 2 large sync and 2 tiny reels; French; 16 mm; 24 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-21
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 4 reels - 2 large sync and 2 tiny reels; French; 16 mm; 24 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-21
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- At the 2nd Congres de la Federation Sepharade Canadienne held in Montreal June 7 to 8, 1975, several speakers vie for the opportunity to address the gathering in a heated debate that threatens to split the community into two opposing camps. Some of the speakers (recognized) include: Raphael Mergui, sociologist, who wants to present a working paper from his group on the social problems that Sephardic Jews in Israel face. Another sociologist, Michael Elbaz, also addresses the assembly, as does another Mr. Mergui, who represents a group of former Israelis and Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Canada and their concerns for families still in Israel. The discussion is passionate and a split in the community is palpable. The Israeli speaker, in a motion of solidarity with fellow Sephardic Jews in Israel, renounces his Israeli citizenship and that of his group's members before the Consulate General of Israel, who is on stage with the other invited guests and speakers. This same debate heats up again on P-0160-22 as the reports, presentations and audience reactions to the meeting heat up as well.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Fédération – Bobine (Reel) 2
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44672
- Collection
- BENSIMON, Jacques = '20 ans apres' - film out-takes fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 large reel A/B of C sync sound - 16 mm.; French; 16 mm; 25 min.
- Fonds No.
- P0160; A; P-0160-22
- Date
- 1975
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 large reel A/B of C sync sound - 16 mm.; French; 16 mm; 25 min.
- Date
- 1975
- Fonds No.
- P0160
- Series No.
- A
- File No.
- P-0160-22
- Creator
- Jacques Bensimon
- Notes
- As in P-0160-21, the second day (June 8, 1975) of the 2nd Congres de la Federation Sepharade Canadienne, the re-election of Elias Malka as its president is followed by speakers from away, such as Andre Narmounian (?). Raphael Mergui presents a series of motions to the assembly in order to draw attention to the plight of Sephardic Jews in Israel. He is subsequently warned about, and the assembly discourages him from, addressing any negative comments on Israel in public, as these may be picked up by neo-Nazi groups and others who are against the State. The other Mr. Mergui, who represents Israeli Sephardic Jewish immigrants, also confirms his allegiance to the State in an attempt to defuse concerns. A split within the community is evident, seeing how heated the debate is and how adamant both sides seem to be with regard to maintaining control over an assembly that threatens to disintegrate into chaos.
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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