We should welcome the apologies of those making amends
Shinewald discusses the importance of making amends through the story of Elkasrawy.
Jewish and Muslim women raise money for vandalized MTL mosque
The Toronto-based Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom has joined with Montreal-area resident Mona Abdullah to raise $7,000 for the repair of the Tawuba Mosque in Montreal.
Your daily spiel for Thursday, March 2
In today’s spiel: Another anti-Semitic Montreal imam video uncovered, Haredim live longer – here’s why – and an Israeli comedy show host urges Israelis to wake up and smell the “apartheid.”
Another anti-Semitic sermon uncovered at Montreal mosque
A second video from a Montreal mosque of an imam delivering an anti-Semitic sermon has come to light, this one saying Jews have no links to Muslim “Palestine.”
Ryerson fires teaching assistant who made anti-Semitic remarks at mosque
A Ryerson University employee who made anti-Semitic statements at a Toronto mosque during prayers last year has been dismissed.
Ryerson probing TA who made anti-Semitic statements at mosque
After complaints from a student and B’nai Brith Canada, Ryerson has referred the case of an employee who made anti-Semitic statements at a local mosque to internal departments for review.
History has its eyes on us: Five ways Jews can counter today’s injustice
Most days when reading the news, my Facebook threads or event invites, I find myself asking, “What will I tell my children on that day when they ask me where I was?”
Mosque says call for Jews’ deaths was response to Gaza ‘massacre’
Montreal police investigating a video taken in a Montreal mosque in 2014 of a man making a supplication in Arabic for Allah “to destroy the accursed Jews.”
A Canadian Jewish response to Islamophobia
The topic of Islamophobia engenders passionate, disparate opinions in the Jewish community, encompassing our own history of persecution and our hopes and fears about Israel.
Is Islamophobia the new anti-Semitism?
In the wake of the Jan. 29 mosque shooting in Quebec City, some Jews believe they have a moral duty to speak out against anti-Muslim sentiment.
