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“Witnessing both the highs and lows of what the Jewish people have faced, and still face, alongside other First Nations, Métis and Inuit participants deepened our connection and understanding,” Crystal Lavallee told JNS.
Ilene Polansky has run a seafood restaurant for 34 years and never before encountered such an incident.
“Prime Minister Mark Carney’s disastrous decision today to eliminate the position altogether marked a shameful choice to double down on weak leadership,” the Combat Antisemitism Movement said.
One of the candidates called himself an “anti-Zionist Jewish person” trying to unlearn “the Zionist myths that most Canadian Jews were brought up with.”
Police say a Toronto-area boy, 14, made antisemitic calls to Jewish institutions amid a surge in anti-Jewish threats, vandalism and violence since Oct. 7.
The Jewish group noted reports that the Muslim Brotherhood’s chapters in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan have financed Hamas.
The driver claimed that he didn’t know someone was hiding under luggage in the back of the vehicle.
There will be “some opportunities to drive back some of that darkness on the horizon with concerted action by Jews and non-Jews alike,” Noah Shack, of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told JNS.
“It is an attack on the lessons we have learned to help prevent repeated mistakes and foster resilience against the illiberal ideologies sweeping the world,” Michael Teper, of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation, told JNS.
“Leaders at all levels of government and authorities must back up their condemnations with concrete action,” CIJA’s Gustavo Zentner stated.
“I was looking for heroism and one ray of light,” Barry Avrich tells JNS, as the documentary goes on the Jewish and Israel film festival circuit.
Get off computer and meet with legislators, police, pro-Israel activist Matthew Taub tells Canadians
Taub told JNS that he founded Unapologetically Jewish, “because I’ve got tired of hearing, ‘I’m scared, and I don’t know what I need to do.’”
