The
Canadian Jewish Review was founded in 1921 in
Toronto by George and Florence Cohen (née Freelander) as a
weekly newspaper, publishing in
English. An office in
Montreal was opened in 1929 and a Montreal edition commenced publication, also in English. The motivation to establish a Montreal edition was
Quebec permitted the commercial advertising of liquor, while
Ontario did not. The paper was initially regarded as being more of a review of social events than a paper containing serious social and political commentary. Much of its social and political commentary was by
Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath (1902–1973), spiritual leader of Toronto's
Holy Blossom Temple and assistant contributing editor of the paper. Rabbi Eisendrath, who came to Holy Blossom Temple in 1929, contributed a weekly column to The
Canadian Jewish Review. co-founded a competing newspaper, The
Jewish Standard, with a specific objective of countering the views of Eisendrath. A substantially complete collection of the
Canadian Jewish Review, donated by
Simon Fraser University Library, has been digitalized and is searchable via the Multicultural Canada project. ==References==