Dispatches: Toronto synagogues grapple with COVID (again)
The first in a series of High Holiday reports from across Canada.
Toronto is getting pop-up sites to help report antisemitic incidents during High Holidays
The pilot project will let people contact police, but respect their level of observance.
After an antisemitic attack in Toronto, Sam Brody says he’s hiding his Jewish identity
“It’s so scary and shocking. It shakes your idea of what it means to live in this city.”
On leaving Shaarei Shomayim, Rabbi Chaim Strauchler reflects on modern Orthodoxy
“We live a Judaism engaged with the world.”
#NoHate Against Jews: 86 bus shelter posters are now all around Toronto
An initiative of the new United Grassroots Movement.
Order shuttering Toronto schools lifted, religious services resume
A yeshiva had launched a court case arguing the Charter rights of students were breached.
School subsidy system needs more transparency and objectivity
“I still don’t know how many people who I know personally will be seeing my financial information, assessing it, judging it, judging me.”
Toronto mayor condemns anti-Semitism, makes it focus of public education campaign
“I have heard the valid concerns of the Jewish community and I stand with them against this hatred.”
A look at the meeting of Jewish and queer identities in film and television
Zoom lecture with stage artist Stav Meishar celebrates Pride Month.
Shomrim launches civilian patrols to protect Jewish communities in Toronto, York Region
The group started after the Israel-Gaza conflict in May.
