David Lazarus
By David Lazarus
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Fast Forward Canada says Jews were most-targeted religious minority for hate crimes last year
Jews saw a 47% rise in reported hate crimes compared to 2020, according to Statistics Canada
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Fast Forward Canada will spend $5M to strengthen security at Jewish institutions, Justin Trudeau tells antisemitism summit
MONTREAL (JTA) — Amid an unprecedented number of antisemitic incidents in Canada, the government is set to spend more than $5 million to shore up the security of the nation’s Jewish community institutions. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement Wednesday at a special virtual national “summit” on anti-Semitism. The new funding is part of…
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Fast Forward Canada hit with wave of antisemitic attacks sparked by Israel-Gaza conflict
MONTREAL (JTA) — Canadian Jews are reeling from an onslaught of public antisemitic rhetoric and violence triggered by the recent military conflict between Israel and Gaza. Montreal and Toronto were especially hard hit, but incidents occurred elsewhere prior to the cease-fire reached last week. Tensions flared between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators, and in some instances…
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Fast Forward Quebec court upholds law banning yarmulkes and other religious symbols in the workplace
MONTREAL (JTA) — A top Quebec court mostly upheld a provincial law banning Jews and other religious minorities who work in public from wearing religious symbols such as yarmulkes, crucifixes and hijabs in their places of employ. The Quebec Superior Court ruled Tuesday that Bill 21 — also known as the “secularism” or “laicity” law…
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Fast Forward Man arrested after swastikas spray-painted on doors of Montreal synagogue
MONTREAL (JTA) — One of Montreal’s largest synagogues was found with its doors spray-painted with large swastikas Wednesday, and a synagogue guard played a role in arresting the man suspected of the vandalism. The man who was apprehended reportedly brought a canister of gasoline to Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, a 160-year-old Modern Orthodox synagogue that is…
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Fast Forward Canadian politician calls Jews ‘parasitic tribe,’ wants removal from Canada
MONTREAL (JTA) — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has opened an investigation into a fringe right-wing politician who called for the removal of Jews from Canada. In a flyer and a video posted on Facebook on Saturday, Travis Patron, the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party, describes Jews as “swindlers,” “snakes,” “inside manipulators,” and a…
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Fast Forward Torah scrolls cut up, prayer shawls stuffed in toilets at Montreal synagogue
MONTREAL (JTA)—Vandals ransacked a small Montreal synagogue sometime after it closed weeks ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic in what was described as one of the worst local synagogue desecrations in memory. The damage at the Kol Yehouda Sephardic congregation included tallitot, or prayer shawls, and tefillin stuffed in toilets; Torah scrolls cut up and…
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Fast Forward COVID outbreak in Canadian Jewish community caused by people fleeing America
MONTREAL (JTA) — Jewish Canadians streaming from Florida to outrun the coronavirus and beat the pre-Passover rush unwittingly helped stoke one of the highest virus-positive rates in Quebec province. Cote St. Luc, a Montreal suburb with the densest and most elderly Jewish population in Quebec, reported some of earliest cases and has declared a state…
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