Signs were burned outside Temple Sinai, a Jewish school and place of worship, in North York Wednesday morning. A similar act of vandalism happened at Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue less than an hour before. Police believe the same suspect is responsible.
Bomb threats sent to dozens of Canadian synagogues and other Jewish institutions this week have left some community members shaken, with several Jewish Canadians telling CBC News they've recently experienced antisemitism on a level they haven’t seen before and changed how they go about their daily lives.Signs were burned outside Temple Sinai, a Jewish school and place of worship, in Toronto on July 31.
Jeffrey Hendren of Saskatoon, who works in human resources, says he stopped wearing his kippa in public because it made him the target of harassment. On one occasion, he says, he began to feel unsafe outside a local mall. They suggested people are turning a blind eye to antisemitic behaviour and what people in Jewish communities are facing.
"I'm feeling a shift in the communities around us and what is considered acceptable or, in some cases, what people think is justifiable behaviour," Cogan said.As reports of hate-motivated crimes skyrocket, CBC’s Ioanna Roumeliotis explores how the divisiveness of the Israel-Hamas war is playing out on the streets of Toronto and gets exclusive access to the police hate crimes unit to find out how it’s responding.
"We experience threats of bombing. But in Gaza, people are actually being bombed," said Fleischmann, who is finishing his PhD at the University of Michigan remotely from Toronto.
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