Toronto Police decry Bais Chaya Mushka school shooting at their monthly public meeting—but they lack legal authority to clear the encampment at UofT
Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw addressed the shooting at the city’s Bais Chaya Mushka school, at the monthly Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) meeting, May 31. Shots were fired at the school early in the morning on May 25. No one was in the building at the time. Demkiw said that the police’s Hate Crime […]
Toronto synagogue Kehillat Shaarei Torah was vandalized for the second time in less than a month—police released a photo of a suspect
UPDATE (5/18/24): Toronto Police Service released the blurry image of a male in a blue hooded jacket, black pants and back shoes related to this hate-motivated mischief investigation at Kehillat Shaarei Torah. Irwin Beron dropped everything and rushed to his synagogue, Kehillat Shaarei Torah (KST), when he learned that the north Toronto shul had been […]
Toronto synagogue Kehillat Shaarei Torah had its windows broken before Passover. A dead raccoon was left in its parking lot after the holiday began
A dead raccoon was left in the parking lot at the same Toronto synagogue where days earlier a masked person smashed five windows with a hammer. The second incident targeting Kehillat Shaarei Torah (KST) in less than one week took place Monday evening, about an hour after the start time of Passover, according to Michael […]
Adath Israel and Beth David: a pair of Conservative synagogues in Toronto narrowly decided against becoming one
What the results say about the denomination’s future.
Toronto Police arrested a man two months after he was part of a pro-Palestinian protest on the Gardiner Expressway in November
It’s the second demonstration this week to lead to belated criminal charges.
Five weeks after a December protest inside the Toronto Eaton Centre, two men were charged with mischief and assaulting a police officer
Shocking demonstrations amidst holiday shopping crowds were focused on Zara.
The grim milestone of 100 days of captivity for Israeli hostages in Gaza was marked by vigils in Canada
Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto saw a crowd on a cold Sunday.
Three people were charged at the Avenue Road bridge after Toronto’s police chief warned of arresting protesters
Toronto police arrested and charged three people on the Avenue Road bridge, on Saturday, days after the city’s police chief warned that demonstrators on the highway overpass could “expect to be arrested.” A man from Newmarket, Ont., was charged with mischief. A Toronto man and a man from Mississauga were each charged with obstructing a […]
Obituary: Rabbi Erwin Schild, 103, a scholar and author who led Toronto’s Adath Israel Congregation for over 40 years
Rabbi Erwin Schild, who survived Kristallnacht and internment at the Dachau concentration camp to go on to lead one of Toronto’s largest Conservative synagogues for over 40 years, died Jan. 6. He was 103. Rabbi Schild’s life encompassed some of the worst moments of Jewish life in the 20th century. Born in Cologne, Germany, March […]
Toronto city councillors James Pasternak and Mike Colle visited the vandalized ‘IDF’ food store while urging other levels of government to help deal with ongoing protests
The pair want the fire to be prosecuted as a terrorist act.
