Police investigating the shooting at a Quebec mosque that killed six have narrowed down their list of suspects to one man who, based on social media activity and accounts of people who know him, has far-right, anti-immigrant sympathies. Authorities claim that Alexander Bissonnette, a student at the city’s Laval University, perpetrated the attack, calling in…
On January 29, a shooting occurred at the Sainte-Foy mosque in Quebec City that left six dead and many more injured. Authorities initially arrested two men after the attack, Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed El Khadir, but have since reported that only Bissonnette is being held as a suspect. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called…
A large swastika was found drawn into the snow on the football field Friday at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. “This really brought me back to reality that this is something that does exist and I do have to be concerned about it,” Laura Medicoff, head of the school’s Jewish Students Association, told…
(JTA) — A swastika was drawn in the snow on the front lawn of a columnist for a Canadian Jewish publication. The swastika and a sexist slur were drawn on Saturday night at the home of B’nai Brith Canada columnist Sara McCleary, who frequently writes about anti-Semitism. McCleary lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, which…
(JTA) — A package with an anti-Semitic epithet and a reference to a Nazi death squad was left on the doorstep of a Jewish couple in Winnipeg, Canada. The incident occurred on New Year’s Eve, B’nai Brith Canada said in a statement Wednesday. The couple returned home at about 10 p.m. to find a red…
Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, a Canadian Jewish farming couple, had a different sort of aliyah in mind when they loaded more than 100 sheep on a cargo plane for Israel, animals they said hail from Biblical times. “You know that Israel is built on Jewish people returning. Now you have a case of an animal…
I am a second year Jewish student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. I came to McGill in September, 2015, and from that time I have been highly involved in many facets of the Jewish community at McGill. First and foremost, my personal experience as a Jew at McGill has been immensely rewarding. It has…
Attending McGill was the best thing to happen to my Jewish identity. For the first time, I was no longer the token Jew, but a leader in a vibrant Jewish community. Measuring quality of Jewish life on campus solely on perceived anti-Zionist rhetoric is immensely reductionist. Algemeiner ignores the vibrant, active Jewish community infrastructure on…
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