Sit this one out—or march loud and proud? Queer Jews face a hard choice in deciding whether to join Pride Toronto festivities in 2024
Leaders of the Jewish organizations that march as a group in Toronto’s annual Pride parade have had a hard time deciding whether to join this year’s joyous blowout celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel and subsequent war in Gaza, the weekly, often chaotic anti-Israel protests, along with increased […]
University of Toronto doctors will stop acknowledging their affiliation with the medical school over its ‘failure’ to protect Jewish students and faculty
Over 100 Jewish doctors who are faculty members at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFOM) will stop acknowledging their affiliation with the school in response to what they see as a failure to protect Jewish students and faculty. The doctors will continue to perform all of their regular roles and responsibilities. However, […]
Israel’s Judaica Centre closed its doors after 42 years in Toronto due to a retail climate that makes it difficult for a small store to survive
Lisa Rabin arrived in Toronto from Cape Town in 1995 without knowing much about Judaism. She hadn’t grown up religious but, at age 23, she wanted a few items in her new home that reflected her heritage. Rabin decided to visit Israel’s Judaica Centre, which had a location in a plaza on Clark Street in […]
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. The repeated vandalism of the Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue is disgusting, cowardly, and deserves the strongest of condemnation – and more importantly, action. […]
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.
