Join me February 10 @ 7 pm for a special presentation highlighting Purim treasures in Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's collections, including photographs from Purimspiels and pageants, historic megillot and gragers, and more Free and open to all! Register: www.theshaar.org/event/discov...

❓ASK THE SHAARCHIVIST❓ In our new 'Ask the Archivist', series we're exploring questions the Shaar Hashomayim archives receives and how our archives are used. In our 1st edition we share how our collections have supported Leonard Cohen–related projects www.theshaar.org/ask-the-arch...

❓ASK THE SHAARCHIVIST❓ In our new 'Ask the Archivist', series we're exploring questions the Shaar Hashomayim archives receives and how our archives are used. In our 1st edition we share how our collections have supported Leonard Cohen–related projects www.theshaar.org/ask-the-arch...

#BookReview: Jean Meltzer’s latest novel "The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah" subverted my expectations. It carries the classic hallmarks of romance, and is underpinned by deep human truths, weaving Jewishness in as a fact of the characters’ lives. @thecjn.bsky.social thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

A DRAGON CALLED SPARK "is a sweet book celebrating friendship and the beauty of sharing parts of ourselves with others" says reviewer Hannah Srour-Zackon in The Canadian Jewish News thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

Hanukkah books are a meaningful way to connect children with the holiday, and to promote joy in Jewishness and Judaism. I review some newly released Hanukkah books which could make great gifts this year, or a great addition to your own bookshelf! @thecjn.bsky.social thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

Submit your proposals now for the AJL 2026 in-person conference, taking place June 22–24, 2026, in Evanston, Illinois. All submissions must be received by December 31, 2025. For more information, visit jewishlibraries.org/....

Excited to share that the Shaar has launched a brand new website with an all-new page entirely devoted to the Archives! Browse through for some of our older blog posts - there'll be more content to come! theshaar.org/the-archives/

@jewishlibraries.bsky.social is an amazing organization to consider in your end of year giving♥️ Want to learn more about the work AJL does, and how your money will support our efforts for impacting Jewish literacy worldwide? Follow me here where I'll be sharing more about our work!

In the AI age, we need librarians more than ever! Librarians are information literacy experts. Plus all the stuff in this blurb! @dhjewish.bsky.social #libraries #librarians #JewishBooks @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social @jewishbook.bsky.social

Getting excited with Chanukah just around the corner? Join me tomorrow evening for "Chanukah Through the Archives" at 7PM on Zoom, featuring the amazing Chanukah-related treasures in the Shaar Hashomayim's collections Register: www.shaarhashomayim.org/event/Chanuk...

ARCHIVES TALK: Discover Chanukah Through the Shaar Archives! Dec 9 7 PM, on Zoom Join me for a special presentation highlighting the amazing Chanukah-related treasures (such as historic photographs and artifacts) in the Shaar's collections Register: www.shaarhashomayim.org/event/Chanuk...

Today's the day! So far we've raised 25% of our goal - thank you for supporting us this #GivingTuesday! Help keep Jewish journalism strong this year at thecjn.ca/donate.

ARCHIVES TALK: Discover Chanukah Through the Shaar Archives! Dec 9 7 PM, on Zoom Join me for a special presentation highlighting the amazing Chanukah-related treasures (such as historic photographs and artifacts) in the Shaar's collections Register: www.shaarhashomayim.org/event/Chanuk...

Interested in a summer internship at the @librarycongress.bsky.social with the Israel & Judaica Section. The Junior Fellows Program is accepting applications. The project would be the Yiddish Bibliographic Records Metadata Enhancement Project. Please consider applying: www.loc.gov/item/interns...

A beautiful map of Jewish libraries around the world in the 2026 issue of @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social Paper Brigade for #JewishBookMonth100, illustrated by Katherine Messenger and compiled with @jewishlibraries.bsky.social (with input from yours truly)! www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/map...

JWA's Winter 2025 Book List has arrived 🥳 Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT

There aren't enough words in the world to express my gratitude for all the @archive.org does!!! I had "lost" 5 blogposts, but found them archived in @waybackmachine.bsky.social Also: humanity's digital memory hangs from literal threads & we're so foolish to believe that digital stuff are "forever."

#JewishBookMonth100 display at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, featuring books about the synagogue, and books by members of our community 📚 @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social #JewishBookMonth

As #JewishBookMonth100 continues, there's a fresh post up on My Machberet. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/11/jewi...

A 1st edition of Leonard Cohen's second collection of poetry "The Spice-Box of Earth" (1961). The book is dedicated to the memory of his grandmother Mrs. Lyon (Rachel) Cohen and the memory of his grandfather Rabbi Solomon Klinitsky #JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100

Probably the last thing I need right now is *another* podcast to follow—but when David Bezmozgis points something my way, I take notice. www.canadaland.com/shows/what-i...

Don't panic Passover isn't any time soon! The Canadian Haggadah edited/compiled by Rabbi Adam Scheier Richard Marceau is just another of the amazing books in the Shaar's collections. Perhaps a great addition to your Seder table! #JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100

Did you know that Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat zt"l wrote the definitive history of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal? This book is a comprehensive and incredible window into the history of Canada's second oldest synagogue #JewishBookMonth #JewishBookMonth100

Today is the first day of #JewishBookMonth100! 📷Shaar librarian Libbie Bernfeld in November 1955 with a Jewish Book Month display Throughout the month I'll be sharing some of the amazing and fascinating books in Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's collections #JewishBookMonth

Today is the first day of #JewishBookMonth100! 📷Shaar librarian Libbie Bernfeld in November 1955 with a Jewish Book Month display Throughout the month I'll be sharing some of the amazing and fascinating books in Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's collections #JewishBookMonth

Aron Heller's "Zaidy's Band" uncovers the stories of Canadian Jewish soldiers during the Second World War, and is a deeply personal exploration of his grandfather Mickey Heller’s (1921–2022) wartime service My latest review for @thecjn.bsky.social #RemembranceDay thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

Complete Sephardi Mahzor for High Holidays, "The House of the Wealthy Man, Uri Halevi". Printed in Amsterdam, 1679. #RoshHashanah (Congregration Shaar Hashomayim, Museum and Archives)

1/ This 1898 Rosh Hashanah card at first glance seems beautiful, though small. But when unfurled, it is packed with unbelievable gems, including a mosaic of delegates to the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel A 🧵on the wonderful finds inside this card #RoshHashanah

Our digital exhibit, "100 Years of the Shaar in Westmount" has been live for a few months now and is packed with lots of incredible gems to discover. Have you had a chance to explore it yet? www.communitystories.ca/v2/century-s...

Maya Arad's "Happy New Years"—her first full-length novel to be translated into English (trans. Jessica Cohen)—is not just timely read as we near Rosh Hashanah, but also excellent and moving. Read my review in @thecjn.bsky.social @newvesselpress.bsky.social thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

1929 and 1924 pamphlets for special consecration services for girls. These were published by the office of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, offering a fascinating glimpse into the early evolution of what would eventually (much later) become the bat mitzvah

✨Help me find Expo 67 historical material✨ I'm looking for a film "Expo 67—Pavilion of Judaism: A view of the Ages" script by Moses Rowell. It was listed in a 1968 Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue. The Shaar archives is interested in finding this for an upcoming project!

Leonard Cohen's birth announcement in the Shaar Hashomayim bulletin (September 28, 1934 issue). Simply identified as "the gift of a son" to Mr. And Mrs. Nathan B. Cohen, as the bulletin would've gone to print before he had his Brit Milah! #LeonardCohen

This was SUCH fun session and a true pleasure to moderate

#AJLCon25 I attended and presented at the IJ Section update. This session presents the highlights of the past year at LC, especially as it pertains to Hebraica and Judaica. @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

Currently learning about the Virtual Tribunals Initiative at Stanford: exhibits.stanford.edu/virtual-trib... #AJLCon25 (includes records from the Nuremberg trails)

So many great recommendations in the session on recent and forthcoming Jewish children's and young adult books! Thanks Heidi, Rebecca, and Talya! #AJLCon25

University Yiddish Library now online! www.universalyiddishlibrary.org/en/ #AJLCon25

Also, the VERY COOL geo-search of the NLI's digital collections (including KTIV, I believe, so includes other institutions' holdings as well) now has a landing page (so I guess that's official too :) ) www.nli.org.il/en/research-... #AJLCon25

Fascinating Shirley Epstein Keynote Address on the Australian Jewish Historical Society by AJHS archivist Sabrina Elias and interns Ailish Schneider, Anna Paradise, and Molly Hayes. A Yiddish-speaking nun and an early feminist riding an ostrich had supporting roles. #AJLCon25

We begin Session 1A: Global Jewish Archives I! First up is Esthy Klein, the Library Director at Har Etzion Yeshiva and Herzog College on the integrated Yeshiva-College Library. The library has over 100k+ volumes and one of the largest in Israel! #AJLCon25

#AJLCon25 is off to start!! My absolute favourite week of the year, looking forward to all the amazing sessions, and hearing from all my @jewishlibraries.bsky.social friends and colleagues

#AJLCon25 starts today, with a full schedule of sessions and meetings. We are so glad to see friends old and new!

If you are going to the always excellent AJL Digital Conference this week, I will be on a panel of editors on Wednsday at 1pm. Hope you can joing us for "People of the Book...Review" "Join representatives from the Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal and AJL News & Reviews…”

📢I am pleased to share Montreal's Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives is launching a bilingual digital exhibit celebrating the history of the synagogue through its collections, offering a glimpse into one of Canada's most historic Jewish institutions www.communitystories.ca/v2/century-s...

We have an amazing schedule for this year's @jewishlibraries.bsky.social conference packed with fascinating sessions! You don't have to be a librarian to attend, lovers of Jewish libraries, books, and more are welcome too! #AJLCon25

We're launching something really exciting this week at the Shaar Hashomayim Museum & Archives. It's a project we've been working on for 2 years and are excited to finally be able to share it. Watch this space for more for more info 👀

What an incredible experience at the Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica seminar @uoft.bsky.social @fisherlibrary.bsky.social, my sincerest thanks to the instructors and organizers. I can't wait to put these new skills to work with the Shaar's collection!