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Toronto Jewish community seeks teen missing for week through Shavuot holiday

With fourteen year old Esther missing since last Friday, volunteers continued to man a Shomrim hotline and a search operations headquarters through Friday and Saturday.

ESTHER, a missing teen from Toronto.
AVI STUDENTS and stakeholders join for a flag-planting ceremony outside AVI headquarters in October 2024.

If these flags could talk - opinion

Screenshot of the 'Resist and Return Conference 2026' website, May 17, 2026.

October 7 Massacre conference to be held in Toronto by branch of banned terror group

Halifax synagogues were vandalized.

Toronto: Antisemitic crimes 35 percent of all hate crimes, 82 percent of religious motivated crimes


PFLP-affiliated NGO Samidoun accounts removed from Instagram, Youtube

The latest Samidoun accounts, belonging to the Vancouver and Toronto chapters, were deleted around July 10 and last Tuesday, respectively.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

'All hands on deck': Anthony Housefather to combat Canada's Jew-hatred

Anthony Housefather’s appointment Friday came as Canada has seen a spike in violent antisemitism.

 Liberal MP and the House of Commons justice committee chair Anthony Housefather bangs a gavel to start the committee meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 13, 2019.

Toronto synagogue pelted with stones, glass panels shattered

B'nai Brith Canada said that police were investigating the throwing of stones at the Pride of Israel Synagogue as a potential hate crime.

A window is pictured with the Star of David in a new synagogue in Cottbus, Germany

Jewish students no longer feel safe at Toronto Metropolitan University - opinion

Hamas propaganda is also being spread on students’ social media, another frustration Jewish students have had to deal with.

Street View and retail entrance to Toronto Metropolitan University Student Learning Center.

Heather Conn Hendel, 48, teacher, caregiver, matchmaker and newlywed, dies days after giving birth

Heather Conn Hendel, cherished teacher and matchmaker in Manhattan and Toronto's Jewish communities, died at 48, leaving a newborn daughter and a profound legacy of kindness.

 A MEMORIAL candle is lit for a deceased loved one.

50,000 walk in support and celebration of Israel in Toronto

The United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto's annual Walk With Israel event on Sunday was the biggest in its history, according to the organizer.

The United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto's 2024 Walk With Israel

Israel’s allies, Oct.7 survivors and hostage families march in largest UJA Walk ever

The event had the largest number of participants in its 55 year history. The Walk is Canada’s largest Jewish community event and the world’s largest Israel solidarity walk outside of Israel. 

 Eyal Eshel at the solidarity march in New York for the Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Uploaded on 3/6/2024

Toronto man arrested for breaking synagogue window as spate of attacks continue

Jonathan Szeftel, 33, is alleged to have approached a synagogue last Saturday before dawn and broke the front window with a rock. 

 A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017.

Toronto leaders rally at Jewish school where shots were fired over Shabbat

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow called the shooting a “despicable, antisemitic act,” adding, “it was a disgusting attempt to intimidate the community, to fill people with fear.”

AS WITH Canada’s southern neighbor, many of the protesters occupying college and university campuses in Canada are not students but professional activists. Pictured here, both sides protest at the University of Toronto earlier this month. Uploaded on 23/5/2024

Shots fired outside Jewish girls elementary school in Toronto, none injured

The Toronto Police Service responded to reports of gunfire at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School near Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue West shortly before 5 a.m.

 Fredericton Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigate apartment complex which was the scene of a shooting incident in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada August 10, 2018.