With the second high-profile Jew to flee Montreal, the exodus of Jews from hostile cities continues apace.

An exclusive report in the Montreal Gazette revealed that the chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital, Emmanuel Moss, has resigned and plans to move to Atlanta amid rising anti-Jewish violence in Montreal, the second high-profile Montreal Jew to skip town on account of antisemitism.

Gad Saad, a professor at Concordia University, announced during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he would be transferring to the University of Mississippi after receiving death threats for supporting the right of the Jewish state to exist.

“I’m now leaving in large part because it became difficult for me, if not impossible, to be a high-profile Jewish professor who supports the right of Israel to exist,” he told Rogan.

Moss served at the Montreal hospital as a surgeon for 10 years before telling his patients and hospital staff he was leaving. While he didn’t publicly give the reasons for his departure, sources close to him cite the rise in antisemitism as the deciding factor.

Antisemitic attacks included firebombing synagogues, firing bullets at a yeshiva, physical assaults and vandalism, and Moss grew increasingly concerned by the failure of authorities to crack down on the incidents. He was particularly outraged by a protest at which Israeli politicians were hanged in effigy, sources said.

While other factors contributed to Moss’s decision to leave, such as the lack of resources for heart patients in Quebec, a source said that the sharp spike in antisemitic attacks was the final straw.

“The health system issues that may have played a role in Manny Moss deciding to leave, they didn’t just arise last week or last month or last year,” the source explained. “The problems with the health system have existed for years, and he could have left at any time before. So what it comes down to is the antisemitism and the feeling that this [city] has become an increasingly dangerous or unrecognizable place to live.”

The departure of Moss, who pioneered robotic cardiac surgery at the hospital, is a blow to an institution where medical resources are already scarce. The website of McGill University, where he served as director of its cardiac surgery residency training program, noted that Moss “is one of the only surgeons in Canada routinely performing both robotic mitral valve and coronary bypass surgeries.”