A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with several anti-Semitic and racist acts of vandalism that occurred in Ottawa. The arrest was confirmed by Ottawa police chief Charles Bordeleau on Saturday in a local synagogue that had been victimized during a solidarity event and prayer service. The teen appeared in court on Saturday and…
For the second time in a week, anti-Semitic defacement has hit Ottawa, after a Modern Orthodox synagogue was tagged with swastikas, according to the Thursday story from the Canadian Broadcasting Company. “I think that this is far more than just regular graffiti vandalism,” Rabbi Idan Scher, spiritual leader of the Machzikei Hadas Modern Orthodox synagogue….
Canadian Jewish institutions are stepping up security after the murder of two Canadian soldiers by homegrown pro-jihadist terrorists. While it is not clear whether the two attacks, which included a shooting at the Parliament in the nation’s capital, were related, they have shaken a country that has experienced few acts of terrorism and has often…
Shootings in Canadian Parliament captured on film / YouTube As I write this while at home in central Ottawa, my husband is in lockdown at work and my kids are being kept indoors all day in their secured school. Ottawa residents joined by onlookers the world over are still trying to piece together today’s events,…
An image from the “Invisible” exhibit in Ottawa, Canada / Mira Sucharov An art exhibit in a quiet gallery inside Ottawa’s City Hall has caused an international stir. Accusing the exhibit of “glorifying terror,” the Israeli ambassador to Canada met with the mayor to express his concerns. And dubbing it a “monument to terror” and…
The City of Ottawa will not close an art exhibit denounced as a glorification of terror by Israel’s embassy and the local Jewish community. “Invisible,” the creation of Toronto-based Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal, focuses on “Palestine … and its military occupation by Israel,” according to a gallery brochure. The exhibit, which is scheduled to end…
Boy aims toy gun at wreckage of a Baghdad car bombing, one of 9 across Iraq that killed 14 on March 5. And that wasn’t Iraq’s worst day in March. / Getty Images Mission Accomplished: Just in time for the 11th anniversary of America’s war to liberate Iraq, a leading global business consulting firm comes…
Pro-Palestinian student groups at the University of Ottawa have launched a campaign to ban Sabra hummus from campus. Sabra is partly owned by the Strauss Group, a foods manufacturer that the students allege financially supports the Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The New York Times. The students say the Golani Brigade…
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