Numerous police forces have reported an increase in suspected hate crimes targeting Jewish people since the latest war between Israel and Hamas broke out on Oct. 7
A man walks past as a Vancouver Police Department patrol car sits in front of the Schara Tzedeck synagogue, in Vancouver, B.C., May 31, 2024.Members of Canada’s Jewish community expressed both anxiety and resolve on Saturday at Shabbat services held following a week of attacks targeting schools and religious institutions that have further stoked fears of rising antisemitism.
Ahead of the morning service, worshippers expressed both dismay at the attack and their firm intention to stand strong in the face of it. Jeff Hayes was among them. “To express oneself through violence and intimidation is a waste of democracy,” he said. “It is trivializing and taking the blessing of democracy for granted.”
Politicians of all stripes have voiced strong condemnations of the both the specific attacks and a general rise of antisemitism. “It’s really challenged our community, and been very unsettling and very unnerving,” Phyllis Berck, a member of the First Narayever synagogue congregation in Toronto, said on Saturday.
That was the case at First Narayever on Saturday, where pews were packed with congregants celebrating a bar mitzvah and praying for peace.
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