Is there a future for Jewish life in secularist Quebec?

Not in Heaven · Apr 30, 2026 · 42m

This month, the province of Quebec passed Bill 9, a law that bans employees at publicly subsidized daycares from wearing religious symbols—including kippot, tzitzit, hijabs, turbans, and Stars of David—while also phasing out subsidies for religious private schools; banning prayer rooms in public institutions such as hospitals and universities; and compelling institutions like the Jewish General Hospital, which serves patients only kosher-certified food, to also offer equivalent non-kosher food.

It is the most recent salvo in Quebec’s ongoing campaign to suppress and push out Judaism, among…