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Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students

Healing Together: Empowering Jewish Students and Navigating Intergenerational Trauma

A three-part video series designed to help Jewish students understand and process intergenerational trauma.

The Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students is a resource person for the diversity of Jewish students on campus, whether you are wanting to find a Jewish club to connect with other students or need a listening ear to help navigate McGill resources.

Rachel Hatcher

Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students

Email: rachel.hatcher [at] mcgill.ca

Educational Opportunities

Jewish Heritage Month (https://jewishheritage.ca/)

Jewish Public Library (https://jewishpubliclibrary.org/)

Juifs d’ici (https://www.juifsdici.ca/en/)

Montreal Holocaust Museum (https://museeholocauste.ca/en/)

Museum of Jewish Montreal (https://museemontrealjuif.ca/)

Sephardic Jews in Montreal (https://lvsmagazine.com/2019/04/la-communaute-sepharade-de-montreal-a-un-tournant/)

Jewish Food and Culture in Montreal (https://www.mtl.org/en/experience/jewish-food-and-culture)

Jewish Neighborhoods in Montreal (https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/wexler-oral-history-project-films-features-news/features/jewish)

Communities and Place of Worship

Consult MORSL’s lists of communities of worship (https://www.mcgill.ca/morsl/connect/spiritual-community-and-worship) and places of worship (https://www.mcgill.ca/morsl/files/morsl/religious_places_of_worship_list_complete_2023-24.pdf).

Kosher Options

Students in residence at the downtown campus may purchase a Kosher meal plan (https://www.mcgill.ca/foodservices/mealplans/residential/kosher-meal-plan).

Students can also use their OneCard or other form of payment at: Le Plezl, 3429 Peel (in the basement of Chabad House)

For a list of Kosher options around Montreal, see the McGill Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (MOSRL) web page on Religious practice on and around campus (https://www.mcgill.ca/morsl/equity-inclusion/religious-practice). Kosher options are listed in the "Jewish services and prayer space" tab.

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous Peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. McGill honours, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we are located. For information about some of the Indigenous initiatives at McGill please visit the website for the Office of Indigenous Initiatives.

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