Lost and Found
Steve Arnold and Karen Mercer
Hamilton Jewish News
March 2013
A piece of Beth Jacob's history has resurfaced after more than 50 years and will soon be coming home.
A five-piece stained glass that once looked down on the bimah of the old Hunter Street shul had been buried…
Jewish Hamilton Project Launched
Steve Arnold
Hamilton Jewish News
September 2009
Billy Shaffir, Dennis Haradyn and Wendy Schneider
Memories.
Memories of the corned beef at Boleslavsky’s Deli, of the Jewish Community Centre on Delaware Street, or the one before that on John Street Nort…
'The Way We Were' documents Jewish life in Hamilton
by Wilf Gerofsky
'Someone ought to write a book.’
How often people who have lived through interesting, emotional or funny times have expressed this yearning for them to be recorded for future generations. Memory fades, details a…
The Rebirth of a Shul
Steve Arnold
Special to the Hamilton Jewish News
November 2010
Beth Jacob recreates itself for a new era
Five years ago, the outlook was clear and grim. Beth Jacob Synagogue, former co-president John Levy concluded, "was on the path to being gone, and that upset me v…
When Scrap was Golden
Stephen Arnold
Hamilton Jewish News
June 2012
Hamilton Scrap Families recall the Golden Age of Scrap Metal
Ellen Hoffman outlines the location of Jewish scrap yards
Jewish history is filled with tales of people who, barred from most other trades and professions, bui…
