The Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students is here to support and accompany the diversity of Jewish students at McGill to help them thrive.
Rachel Hatcher, Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students
Email: rachel.hatcher [at] mcgill.ca (rachel[dot]hatcher[at]mcgill[dot]ca)
The role of the Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students is to answer your questions about McGill resources and listen to your concerns. She will help you identify McGill and community resources that are suited to your particular situation. The Student Affairs Liaison can point you toward Jewish student groups you can connect with or toward educational opportunities, for example if you want to learn more about Jewish Montreal.
Every January, the Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students works to organize an event commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Opportunities to learn
Jewish Heritage Month (https://www.canada.ca/fr/bibliotheque-archives/organisation/mises-a-jou…)
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 places of worship
Consult MORSL’s lists of communities of worship and place of worship (https://www.mcgill.ca/morsl/connect/spiritual-community-and-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 another form of payment at:
Le Plezl, located at 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, "Religious practice on and around campus." Kosher options are listed in the "Jewish services and prayer space" tab (https://www.mcgill.ca/morsl/equity-inclusion/religious-practice).
Upcoming events
Montreal's Jewish artists at the Visual Arts Collection
Join the McGill Visual Arts Collection and the Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students for a special guided tour focused on the Jewish Painters of Montreal, a remarkable group of artists who helped shape the city’s cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorative Lecture
The lecture, entitled “Between God and Vichy: Religion, Race, and the Holocaust in France,” will be delivered by Professor Aliza Luft, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles.
"Islamophobia and Antisemitism in the Crusader Society"
Professor Adnan A. Husain will present a lecture on Islamophobia and Antisemitism in the Crusader Society: From Medieval Mediterranean to Modern Global Histories. Professor Husain will examine the shared histories of Islamophobia and antisemitism as species of religious exclusion, bigotry, and violence in Latin Christendom and will suggest that the dynamics of medieval persecution have had lasting consequences for the interrelated questions of Islamophobia and antisemitism.
Date: January 28, 2026
Time: 4:30-6:15pm, followed by a networking session from 6:15 to 7:45pm
Location: Tanna Schulich Hall, 527 Sherbrooke Street West
Invitation to Participate: Working Group on Antisemitism
McGill University’s Working Group on Antisemitism is inviting faculty, students, and staff who have experiences related to antisemitism and/or discrimination against individuals with Israeli nationality within a McGill University context to share their experiences or participate in upcoming listening sessions, or, if they prefer, to provide a written communication. The objective is to collect as broad a range of experiences as possible.
The Working Group, co-chaired by Professors Alana Klein and Eran Shor, was established to ensure that antisemitism is well-understood, effectively prevented, and appropriately addressed across our campuses. Its mandate includes reviewing relevant legal and policy frameworks, exploring how antisemitism and anti-Israeli discrimination are experienced within the McGill community, and recommending strategies for education, prevention, and response.
Your lived experience and insights are vital to this work. If you would like to contribute information or take part in a listening group, we encourage you to complete the confidential form or contact aswg [at] mcgill.ca (aswg[at]mcgill[dot]ca).
Nu Magazine
Nu Magazine is the first Jewish campus magazine in Canada. It is dedicated to Jewish culture with a focus on Montreal. Based at McGill University, Nu publish weekly on the arts, cuisine, philosophy, history and religion.
A touch of history: A.M.Klein
Celebrated poet A. M. Klein, winner of the Governor General's Award in poetry in 1948 for The Rocking Chair and Other Poems, guides us through Montreal and its iconic spaces from the top of Mont Royal to the tabletops of Ben’s Deli. Watch as we celebrate just a few of the many McGill literati who have been inspired by the unique texture of our city.
