Tag: Toronto
‘The Bibi Files’ featuring Netanyahu interrogation screens in Toronto
"The Bibi Files" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday evening. The documentary film features never-before-seen footage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, his son Yair, and friends and associates...
Record crowd of 50,000 turns out for pro-Israel Toronto event
More than 50,000 pro-Israel people turned out for the UJA Walk with Israel in Toronto on Sunday, a record turnout for the event which is in its 55th year.
Adam Hummel, a lawyer in Toronto, told JNS...
Toronto police make two arrests in antisemitic vandalism cases
Michael Park, 35, reportedly frightened Toronto residents in 2021 when he walked through a park shirtless, displaying a swastika painted in black on the right side of his chest, similar to Edward Norton’s neo-Nazi...
Canada’s largest museum to change Palestinian ‘dispossession’ exhibit texts
The exhibition "Being and Belonging," on view through Jan. 7 at the Royal Ontario Museum, features artworks by contemporary women artists "from the Islamic world and beyond," per the museum website, which hails the...
In his philanthropic matchmaking, Israel Schachter reaches to the stars
Driving an Aston Martin across a frozen Iceland lake. Meeting the pope. Golfing with a U.S. president. Sitting on stage during an Elton John concert.
These are among the experiences—all benefiting charity—that Israel Schachter, 42,...
Canadian man who assaulted Jews is freed on probation
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Canada voiced its opposition to a decision by a Toronto court to free a man who pled guilty to three counts of hate-motivated assault.
Michael Park, 33, who...
Toronto schools confront wave of anti-Semitism
Officials with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) are once again investigating incidents of Jew-hate on one of their campuses after graffiti was found at a middle school where students performed a “Hitler salute”...
Toronto man arrested, again charged for assault, anti-Semitic attack
A Canadian man responsible for a number of anti-Semitic attacks within the last few months was recently arrested and charged in relation to another hate-motivated assault, B’nai Brith Canada reported.
On Friday, Michael Park, 32, approached a woman at...
Graffiti in Toronto claims Jews were responsible for Sept. 11 terror attacks
Graffiti claiming that Jews were responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks was painted on a building in Toronto and a highway overpass in Canada over the weekend.
Among the writing was “Jews did 911”...
Canadian Jewish leaders raise alarm after string of anti-Semitic assaults in Toronto
A Toronto man with a swastika tattoo on his chest was arrested for assault on a Jewish man and ticketed for other offenses aimed at the Jewish community during the past week.
Michael Park, 32,...