Congregation Beth Tikvah
Congregation Beth Tikvah Ahavat Shalom Nusach Hoari, also known simply as Beth Tikvah, is a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec.History
Beth Tikvah was founded in 1964 by a group of about twenty young families who were considered pioneers of Jewish life in the West Island. Rabbi Mordecai Zeitz arrived at the invitation of local families and with support from a synagogue-planting subsidy program of Yeshiva University. Beth Tikvah has run a supplementary school, Hebrew Academy, since the synagogue's establishment.
A house was bought which accommodated the congregation and Hebrew school until the fall of 1968, when a congregation that would soon reach 300 families moved into a new multi-purpose auditorium on the present site. The synagogue opened an elementary school, Hebrew Foundation School, in the fall of 1970.
Since 2004, the synagogue has housed an eighteenth-century torah scroll from Rokycany, Bohemia, originally secured by the Czech Memorial Scrolls Centre in 1964. In August 2007, Beth Tikvah merged with Congregation Ahavat Shalom Nusach Hoari, formed in 1910 and 1915.
