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Not February yet. Here’s some Jewish news:
Jewish groups spoke out in solidarity with the Muslim community yesterday, expressing their horror and outrage at the murderous attack on a Quebec City mosque Sunday night, which killed six people and wounded up to 17 others. World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder also condemned the terrorist attack, stating, “We must defend each other and we must look after one another – one religious community after the other, one country after the other.”
Some Jewish leaders and groups in Canada condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration and travel ban yesterday.
A trade school in British Columbia reportedly rejected an Israeli student applicant for being Israeli. Stav Daron received an e-mail from the Island School of Building Arts, located on B.C.’s Gabriola Island, notifying him that “due to the conflict and illegal settlement activity in the region, we are not accepting applications from Israel.”
A community-wide event in Toronto to address, and shatter the stigma around substance abuse and behavioural addictions in the Jewish community is being held at 7 p.m. tonight at Beth Tzedec Congregation. The event is free.
“Pathetic” and “disappointing.“ These were two of the words White House press secretary Sean Spicer used to describe complaints that Trump’s statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day left out mention of Jewish victims.
And yet, apparently the controversial statement was written by a Jew. JTA has reported that Boris Epshteyn, a special assistant to the president, crafted the statement, the political news website Politico reported Monday evening.
An Israeli chemist has warned that an ammonia tank in the Haifa bay could “fall apart even tomorrow morning,” killing over 10,000 people.
A Yemeni Jew with a green card, who’s lived in the United States for almost 11 years, was one of the hundreds affected by Trump’s travel ban. Manny Dahari wrote a Facebook post on Jan. 28, before he was barred entry to the United States on his way back from a trip to Israel, stressing to his friends “celebrating Mr. Trump’s decision” that the ban affects not just Muslims, but “thousands of Jews and Christians escaping war and religious persecution.”
