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Sources say that TIFF pulled the film due to copyright issues around Hamas footage, and risks of anti-Israel protests.
“May you have a swift recovery in body and soul from this terrible ordeal. We are with you, and we are here for you. The whole Jewish people stands with you,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Retired English professor Goldie Morgentaler told JNS that her new book, which includes her mother’s letters, is an effort to tell “history on the fly.”
The victim, dressed in Orthodox Jewish attire, was seen lying on the ground as the assailant punches him several times.
“A situation like this must never happen again,” said the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
Meanwhile, the body of Israeli Illya Rechytskyy, 65, was found in Whistler, Canada.
Investigations opened into vandalism targeting Congregation Emanu-El in British Columbia and the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne.
Charles Small, of ISGAP, stated that organizations linked to the Brotherhood are “undermining Canadian democracy itself.”
The sentence of 60 days of house arrest “really doesn’t send the serious message that’s required here,” Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS.
“I don’t know how a human being could fit that much into one day, but he was always where he was supposed to be and taught us the importance of showing up,” the cantor’s son told JNS.
Ottawa’s move will “not change anything in the Middle East except embolden terrorists,” Sharren Haskel says.
The Israeli minister for Diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism criticized the moves by Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
