Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn of the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch organized a party for the Jewish holiday of Purim. The event was hosted Conservative MP Mark Adler.
The Jewish holiday of Succoth saw Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn of the Canadian Federation of Chabad-Lubavitch set up a sukkah (a temporary dwelling to symbolize what the Jews used when they wandered the dessert for 40 years) in the East Block courtyard.