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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 527

Canadian Jews

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrates Passover with members of the Jewish community, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, April 23, 2024. (Adam Scotti / PMO)
January 6, 2025, 10:25 pm
Outgoing PM Trudeau lost confidence of much of Canada’s Jewish community
Jewish leaders decried his lack of action against soaring post-October 7 antisemitism, with synagogues and schools targeted, and failure to support Israel during war
By Andrew Lapin
Israel supporters observe a moment of silence as they attend a vigil outside McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on October, 7, 2024, to commemorate the victims of the October 7 massacre by Hamas on Israel. (Graham Hughes / AFP)
December 7, 2024, 3:32 am
264-year-old Montreal Jewish community fears antisemitism becoming the new normal
Latest incidents further fuel heightened anxiety over crisis in Canada’s second largest city as Jews face troubling questions about their community’s future
By Robert Sarner
Former Canadian justice minister and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, seen in Jerusalem in early 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
November 18, 2024, 4:15 pm
Canada said to foil Iranian plot to assassinate renowned Jewish jurist Irwin Cotler
Report says former justice minister was informed last month that he faced imminent threat of assassination by Iranian agents, with threat level since lowered
By ToI Staff
A sign for Israel's Jewish National Fund is seen defaced, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2008. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)
October 16, 2024, 3:25 pm
Canadian crackdown on Israel-linked charities raises concerns in Jewish community
The tax authority’s revocation of charitable status for JNF Canada and others has reverberated inside and outside the country – though the motives behind it are disputed
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Bais Chaya Mushka, a Jewish girls' school in Toronto, Canada, in an undated photo. (Screenshot)
October 13, 2024, 6:54 am
Toronto Jewish school targeted by gunfire during Yom Kippur, in 2nd attack in months
Trudeau says he’s ‘very disturbed’ by incident, which comes amid dramatic rise in antisemitic attacks in the country as war rages in Middle East
By AFP and ToI Staff
Students and activists protest for an eighth day at an anti-Israel encampment on the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Alexis Aubin / AFP)
October 6, 2024, 5:16 pm
Jewish students say anti-Israel Oct. 7 events at Montreal campuses set to celebrate Hamas
Even after McGill and Concordia take measures to stem antisemitism on campus, protest groups continue to glorify terror a year after the Hamas massacre, putting local Jews on edge
By Eliyahu Freedman
Illustrative: Family members of hostages held by terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip lead a crowd at a rally for the captives' release, in Central Park, New York, March 10, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)
October 6, 2024, 12:43 am
Across North America, Jews and their allies prepare for a poignant Oct. 7 commemoration
Falling during the Days of Awe, the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust still painfully resonates – and brings people together – around the world
By Cathryn J. Prince
Igal Hecht at the 'car graveyard' during filming of 'The Killing Roads' in March 2024. (Courtesy of Chutzpah Productions)
October 5, 2024, 9:45 am
In ‘The Killing Roads,’ filmmaker Igal Hecht confronts the visceral pain of Oct. 7
The powerful new documentary, its release set to coincide with the massacre’s anniversary, focuses on the Hamas slaughter on the south’s main arteries. To combat deniers, it is available for free
By Robert Sarner
Israeli-Canadian influencer and racecar driver Joshua Cartu (R), who is wanted by US authorities for alleged binary options fraud, leaves a Russian detention center in Saint Petersburg on August 24, 2024. (Olga Maltseva/AFP)
August 24, 2024, 7:40 pm
Israeli-Canadian ‘Ferrari fugitive’ released by Russia despite US extradition request
Joshua Cartu wanted by US alongside brothers on suspicion of defrauding investors of about $60 million between 2013 and 2017 in binary options scam run out of Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Birdseye view of the Belz Yeshiva Ketana in Montreal, Canada. (Belz fundraising video/YouTube)
May 31, 2024, 3:57 am
Montreal Jewish school hit by gunfire in second such attack in Canada within days
Police say at least one bullet hit Orthodox yeshiva less than week after two masked suspects opened fire at Chabad girls’ school in Toronto; no injuries in either incident
By JTA
Members of Toronto's Jewish community escorting Eitan Cohen to school, May 17, 2024. (X screenshot)
May 19, 2024, 2:22 am
Jewish community in Toronto escorts boy to school as antisemitic bullying persists
Mother of Eitan Cohen says he was told by fellow students that they would ‘do to him what Hamas did to Israel,’ adds that he’s been pushed, kicked and had stones thrown at him
By ToI Staff
Deborah Lyons (left) with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, December 2023. (Courtesy)
May 9, 2024, 3:46 am
Canada’s antisemitism envoy says Jew-hatred is at a high — and may get even worse
Six months into her role, Deborah Lyons sees an already dire situation exacerbated by the October 7 atrocities, saying the problem must be confronted at all levels
By Robert Sarner
Screen capture from video of a pro-Palestinian protest outside a Jewish community center in Montreal, Canada, March 5, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 6, 2024, 9:17 pm
Pro-Palestinian mob blocks access to Montreal Holocaust Museum over pro-Israel event
Central Jewish community group denounces protest as deliberate intimidation of local Jews; police deploy in force to secure similar gathering at synagogue
By Stuart Winer
Ilan-Reuben Abramov, 27, is seen approaching pro-Palestinian protesters armed with a nail gun on March 3, 2024 in the Jewish neighborhood of Thornhill outside Toronto, Canada (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
March 4, 2024, 3:18 pm
Canada man arrested for threatening pro-Palestinian activists with nail gun
Videos on social media show 27-year-old confronting keffiyeh-wearing protesters, yelling obscenities; protest held during private synagogue event in Jewish neighborhood
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Selina Robinson speaks about the challenges facing women in politics, September 7, 2022. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 13, 2024, 4:04 pm
Jewish Canadian politician fired, gets death threat after snark about pre-Zionist Palestine
Progressive British Columbia minister Selina Robinson forced to step down after anti-Israel activists demand her ouster for calling pre-state Israel a ‘crappy piece of land’
By Robert Sarner
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