Montreal – The City is in court this week to shut a 30-year old Hasidic synagogue in the central-Montreal borough of Outremont because it’s operating in a residential zone – a move that is fomenting divisions between Jews and non-Jews in the area.
Members of Congregation Munchas Elozer Munkas who pray at 1030-1032 St. Viateur St., say they have never had problems with their neighbours until recently and wonder why the city is suddenly taking legal action to shut them down.
(Source: Canada.com)
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It’s 1032 AVENUE Saint Viateur, not street.
Montreal has churches on many residential streets…sometimes they take up one side of the street for a sqaure block…noone is closing them down…I wonder, why???
St. Viateur is a busy business area…after so many years in one place, what is the real reason?
for the past 30 years no problem operating in a residential area but now it is a problem. something must have happened to cause this.
Because in Munkatcher Shul they don’t speak French.
WAKE UP MONTREALERS!!!!!!
leave before its to late, first Bobev now Munkatch, lets not forget 1939
i hate to sound paranoid, but there is accelerating volume of anti-Jewish sentiment and activity, and Canada is no less vulnerable to this than United States or Europe. Does anyone else recognize the return of the winds that blew in the 1930’s in Europe? There is stark similarity in that these winds are supported and encouraged by governments. We need Moshiach
This is the latest in a series of actions targeted against the Chassidic and other religious communities in Montreal. Antisemitsm amongst the Quebecois runs very deep. They deeply resent that the Chassidim remain separate from their culture – a culture that is so insecure that they in turn want to separate from English Canadian culture. The hypocrisy is amazing.
But they do make the best bagels – especially on St. Viateur.