Dina Krasnansky’s Loaves of Love
“Challah is a powerful thing,” Dina Krasnansky tells us as she shares a couple of short stories about how baking…
Archives: Stories
Milton Winston: Creating A Montreal Jewish Voice
Milton Winston is the founder, producer, and host of Jewish Mosaic, later renamed Chai Montreal. From 1958 to 2008 it…
Diana Fellen: A Student at Heart
Listen to Diana Fellen as she recounts her experience growing up in Montreal, from her childhood in what is now…
Andrea Fieldman: Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom – “Everybody is Welcome!”
Andrea Fieldman was born in 1939 and grew up in Montreal’s Lakeshore area, where life was marked by ten-party phone…
Michael Kaplan: The Bagg Street Synagogue
Michael Kaplan shares his story about growing up in Montreal and preserving the historic Bagg Street Shul community throughout the…
Lily Dangoor: Memories of leaving Iraq
Listen to Lily Dangoor as she recounts her childhood in Baghdad, memories of the 1958 Revolution, and her ultimate escape…
Georgette Bensimon: D’Agadir à Montréal / From Agadir to Montreal : histoires d’immigration / immigration stories (1/2)
Récit de la vie de Georgette Bensimon, arrivée à Montréal en 1958 parmi les premiers immigrants juifs marocains. Ceci est…
Georgette Bensimon: À la recherche d’une identité juive / In search of a Jewish identity (2/2)
Récit de la vie de Georgette Bensimon, arrivée à Montréal en 1958 parmi les premiers immigrants juifs marocains. Ceci est…
D’Agadir à Montréal/From Agadir to Montreal : histoires d’immigration, stories of immigration (1/2)
Récit de la vie de Georgette Bensimon, arrivée à Montréal en 1958 parmi les premiers immigrants juifs marocains. (Première partie)…
Gladys Mooallem: From Baghdad to Tel Aviv: Part 2
In Part 2 of her interview, Gladys Mooallem describes her family’s arrival in Israel after they are forced to give…