Two Toronto synagogues attacked over the Canada Day weekend in a window-smashing spree
Pride of Israel and Kehillat Shaarei Torah were struck early Sunday.
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. […]
After a Fredericton synagogue is vandalized, the community turns out for a solidarity vigil
On Sunday, Jan. 28, one day after its front windows were broken on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Sgoolai Israel Synagogue in Fredericton was at capacity for a solidarity vigil organized by friends of the Jewish community. The event began with participants standing with linked arms outside the synagogue, where the glass panes […]
A brazen Israeli flag burning outside a Jewish school has shocked the Montreal community
Montreal Police announced they have arrested a 16-year-old suspect in relation to the removal and burning of Israeli flags that were hanging outside a Jewish day school on April 26, Yom ha-Atzmaut. Police had said the incident was being investigated as a hate crime. One young man was seen clearly in a 34-second online video […]
Winnipeg police are investigating why 70 headstones were toppled in the Shaarey Zedek cemetery
Officials don’t think it was antisemitism specifically, but maintain it was a desecration of a holy site.
Hate crime possible in vandalism of Montreal kosher restaurant
The front door of Chez Benny was broken and there was an attempt to start a fire.
National Holocaust monument vandalized
The Ottawa Police Service is treating as a hate crime an incident in which the National Holocaust Monument was struck by eggs.
Police call assaults on Jewish man and teenage girl in Paris hate crimes
A young man and a teenage girl were both assaulted in two separate incidents on the streets of Paris, in what police said may have been hate crimes.
Toronto day school defaced with pro-Palestinian slogans
Students and faculty at The Leo Baeck Day School’s South Campus in Toronto returned from the Thanksgiving long weekend to find pro-Palestinian slogans plastered on their school.
Swastikas painted on walls of Virginia JCC
Nineteen swastikas were recently spray painted on the walls of a Jewish Community Centre in Virginia.
