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Article content Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, premiers, mayors, university presidents and all Canadians of good conscience, I write this letter today on behalf of Canada’s oldest grassroots Jewish community organization, B’nai Brith Canada, to our political and civil society leaders. In a broader sense, this letter is addressed to all Canadians. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or An open letter to Canada: It is starting to be unsafe to be a Canadian Jew Back to video We have just witnessed a wake-up call for Canadian Jewry. There is a ...

Weekly roundup of world briefs   By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — In his proclamation marking Jewish American Heritage Month, President Joe Biden cited the precedents set by prominent Jews in politics this year and condemned the nation’s spike in antisemitism in recent years. Biden recognized Douglas Emhoff and Chuck Schumer, saying this year Americans saw “two historic firsts… the Vice President take the oath of office alongside her Jewish spouse, and a Jewish American became the first Majority Leader of the United States Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish American elected offic...

France’s “Sarah Halimi Law” Won’t Combat Antisemitism LAST MONTH, THE COUR DE CASSATION —France’s highest criminal court—upheld a controversial decision ruling that Kobili Traoré could not stand trial for the death of Sarah Halimi, an Orthodox Jewish retired schoolteacher living in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement. There was never any doubt that Traoré killed Halimi in a chilling attack in 2017: He confessed to breaking into Halimi’s home in the building where they both lived and crushing her skull with a blunt object before throwing her blood-soaked body off a balcony. There w...

A rally for Sarah Halimi in Paris in January 2020. In France today, it is possible to be sentenced to a year in prison for throwing a dog from a window whilst high on cocaine, but if you hurl a Jew to their death whilst on cannabis, you walk free. “It is intolerable that a leading European nation is so abjectly failing to stop the persecution of its Jewish population.” In New York, the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement has launched a global social media campaign to protest the French court decision. The British Jewish community will be demonstrating outside the Embassy on France in London o...