Montreal police are investigating attacks against six Jewish institutions in the city over the weekend, and at least one rabbi is planning to tighten security at his synagogue.
Someone broke windows at four synagogues in Hampstead and Côte St-Luc, and at a Jewish school and a kindergarten in Côte St-Luc.
The attacks were quickly condemned by federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, and by the Liberal MP for the area, Irwin Cotler.
Cotler said the attacks were clearly an anti-Semitic hate crime.
Ignatieff called the vandalism a series of hateful and systematic acts, not just on institutions but on a religious community itself.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, of the Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem synagogue, which was vandalized in Côte St-Luc, was a little more philosophical.
"It's not the end of the world, but it's not the way the world should be," he said
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2011/01/17/mtl-amti-semitism.html#ixzz1BKTDuywC
2 comments:
And people say religion helps people??
It must have been an American with a gun that broke those windows.
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