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Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon is a writer based in Canada.

“Everyone deserves to feel safe in the city,” Ariella Kimmel, executive director of the nonprofit ABC Toronto, told JNS.
There are 26 commandments in the Torah that can only be performed in Israel. No other religion mandates practices to be performed only in Israel.
“This is not just a Jewish issue. This is a Canadian issue,” said Sara Lefton of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. “We need to stand up for Israel.”
“Perpetrators feel increasingly emboldened to act openly, publicly,” Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, of the Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal, told JNS.
A recent annual report on Jew-hatred found that antisemitic instances were up 83% in Canada from 2021 to 2023.
“We can’t ally with just one party,” Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides, who is part of the clergy at a Calgary Conservative synagogue, told JNS.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs slammed the report for “blatantly” dismissing “the lived experience of Jewish students, families and educators.”
“I don’t feel like giving benefit of the doubt,” David Fleischer told JNS. “It feels like it’s something all the time now.”
A wide range of pro-Israel allies represented “ethnicities and nationalities, who have seen their own identities attacked by others,” per an organizer.
Parents aren’t raising their kids to think Hamas is good. “They’re learning it in their classes,” Bari Weiss, editor of “The Free Press,” told attendees.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, told JNS that his mentor has “dedicated his life to fighting injustice, defending the oppressed and advancing human rights.”
“If we did give a statement, it would be that the quote is false,” Anthony Housefather, who is Jewish, told JNS of charges from someone helping the campaign of his Jewish opponent Neil Oberman.