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Founded in Montreal in 1892, the Association was the first mutual aid group of its kind in the city. Its aims were to provide free medical care, invalid pensions, mortuary benefits and cemetery plots. Its members also provided visits to the sick, help to the bereaved, and donations to various charities (both local and for Israel). The HSBA was made redundant by Medicare, pensions, etc., and ceased its active work in 1989.

The Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion is a Jewish seminary with three locations in the United States and one location in Jerusalem. It is the oldest extant Jewish seminary in the Americas and the main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened in April 1925.

Estelle Hecht was born c. 1900 in Montreal and lived in Outremont with her family. She attended the fine arts school at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts part-time, studying under artists such as Jacques de Tonnancour, Arthur Lismer, and Moe Reinblatt. Her work was listed in shows such as the Burnaby Print Show, the Canadian Society of Graphic Arts, and the Calgary Print Show. In 1961, Hecht opened Gallery 1640, specializing in printmaking. The gallery showed Canadian artists as well as printmakers from abroad. Estelle Hecht died in 1971 in a fire in her gallery.