Kiryas Tosh
Kiryas Tosh (), also called Tash (), is a Hasidic Jewish community in the town of Boisbriand, Quebec. It is affiliated with the Tosh Hasidic dynasty. The community is home to about 550 households, or about 3,100 people. Naming Kiryas Tosh, or Kiryas Tash (), is named after the town of Tash, Hungary (now Nyírtass, Hungary), near Slovak and Ukrainian borders, where Tasher (Tosher) rebbes once gathered. History The community was formed in 1963 by Rebbe Meshulim Feish (Ferencz) Lowy. Lowy moved to Montreal in 1951, but viewed the moral climate in the community as deteriorating, and not conducive to the study of Torah. The Rabbi and 18 families moved to the Boisbriand area in 1963, in an attempt to better insulate and isolate the community from outside influences. Since then, the population of the community has greatly increased, mostly due to the high fertility rates of Hasidic communities. In 2019, a mass vaccination campaign against measles was carried out, after a measles outbreak occurred, suspected to have been carried from the endemic measles persistent hotspot in New York City. Most members of the community had already had vaccinations, but not all, and not all up to date in booster