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Screen capture of antisemitic content posted to a Canadian medical student social media server Comment reads 'If you mute me karma will make you choke during the MEM [medical interviews]'. (Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism)
May 11, 2025, 6:47 pm
Jewish group exposes antisemitic posts of Quebec med school applicants and students
B’nai Brith Canada finds slew of misogynistic, racist and anti-Jewish hate content, including Holocaust jokes and denial on social media platform accessed by 1,400 people
By ToI Staff
Students from North American universities listen to relatives of hostages in Gaza at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on December 27, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
December 30, 2023, 1:33 pm
US students touring Israel: Campus antisemitism is palpable, violent — and inescapable
Jews from top-tier American universities describe their experiences with hatred unleashed by the war with Hamas and its galvanizing effect on their communities
By Canaan Lidor
Main entrance to Shearith Israel synagogue in Montreal. (Courtesy)
January 5, 2022, 3:53 am
Quebec shuts synagogues, other houses of worship as Omicron surges
Canadian province is currently only region of North America where Jewish community has no in-person services for foreseeable future
By David Lazarus
Thousands protest vaccine passports in Montreal, Canada, August 15, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)
August 15, 2021, 3:11 am
Yellow stars on display at Montreal protest against vaccine passport
Some evoke Holocaust imagery as thousands of Quebecers turn out to demonstrate against measure, set to come into effect next month
By AFP
Illustrative image of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
April 25, 2021, 11:13 am
Quebec court upholds law banning yarmulkes, other religious symbols in workplace
Jewish advocacy group says provisions of ruling ‘severely restrict religious freedom’ and limit career options for religious Jews
By David Lazarus
Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Montreal. (Screen capture/Global News)
December 12, 2020, 2:16 am
Jewish nursing home in Montreal will be Quebec’s 1st to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Dozens have died of virus in Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre; staff and residents could begin receiving shots as early as Friday night
By David Lazarus
Air crew walks past an empty Starbucks at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on March 17, 2020 in Montreal, Canada. (JOCELYNE ZABLIT/AFP via Getty Images)
November 23, 2020, 7:54 am
Quebec eases virus rules for Christmas gatherings, but not Hanukkah
Canadian Jewish groups cry foul, say pandemic policy must also apply to Jewish communities during their upcoming holiday
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Police cars block the Saint-Louis Street near the Chateau Frontenac early Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 in Quebec City, Canada. Police in Quebec City early Sunday arrested a man on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others in a stabbing rampage near the provincial legislature on Halloween. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)
November 1, 2020, 7:07 pm
Police rule out terror motive in Quebec sword attack that killed 2
Montreal man was dressed in medieval clothing at the time of his arrest; officers say motive was personal
By AP and ToI Staff
A firefighter truck is parked in front of the National Assembly of Quebec, in Quebec City, early on November 1, 2020, after two people were killed and five wounded by a sword-wielding suspect dressed in medieval clothing (Jordan PROUST / AFP)
November 1, 2020, 8:34 am
2 dead, 5 injured in sword attack by man in ‘medieval clothes’ in Quebec City
Police say man in his mid-20s arrested on suspicion of carrying out Halloween rampage; no motive revealed
By AFP
Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform, taken by internee Marcell Seidler, Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, circa 1940-1942. Seidler secretly documented camp life using a handmade pinhole camera. (photo credit: Marcell Seidler/Courtesy Eric Koch/Library and Archives Canada)
August 16, 2020, 6:55 am
In WWII, an anti-Semitic Canada kept Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ in barbed wire camps
Online exhibit details how thousands of German and Austrian Jews were arrested in Britain and shipped overseas, where they were kept together with Nazi POWs in harrowing conditions
By Julie Masis
View of downtown Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. (Guillaume Prévost/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 25, 2020, 9:09 pm
Deed on Montreal-area home contains century-old clause preventing sale to Jews
Though such stipulations, common throughout first half of 20th century, are no longer enforceable, there is still a court process to remove them from documents
By JTA and ToI Staff
Yohanan and Shifra Lowen are suing the Quebec province and school system. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA)
February 13, 2020, 4:58 am
Ex-Hasidic couple sues Quebec for failing to ensure they were properly educated
Yohanan and Shifra Lowen say when they left high school they could barely add or subtract, could not read and write in English or French, and were unprepared to find work
By JTA
An illustrative photo of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)
June 17, 2019, 1:34 pm
Quebec bans new public servants from wearing kippot, other religious symbols
Measure, which also includes Muslim veils, applies to police officers, judges, lawyers, prison guards and teachers; opponents say it impacts religious freedoms
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on December 7, 2018 Premier of Quebec François Legault looks on as prime ministers of the Canadian provinces gather for a meeting set-up by Canada prime minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, at the Marriott Chateau Champlain. (MARTIN OUELLET-DIOTTE / AFP)
March 29, 2019, 7:08 am
Jews worried as Quebec moves to ban religious symbols on public workers
So-called secularism bill will keep police officers, teachers and others from wearing kippahs and crosses, but critics say real target is Muslim hijabs
By JTA
Alexandre Bissonnette is escorted to a van January 30, 2017, in Quebec City, after appearing in court for Sunday's deadly shooting at a mosque. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)
March 9, 2019, 7:48 am
Canadian man behind mosque massacre said to appeal sentence
Lawyers for Alexandre Bissonnette call life sentence he received for murder of six Muslim worshipers ‘an illegal punishment’
By AFP
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