Parshas Tzav / Shabbos HaGadol - We Want Hashem Now!
Rabbi Mendel Kpalan posted on his Facebook page videos of a man throwing a rock at the Thornhill Synagogue alog with the comment, "Yet despite this obviously anti-Semitic and hateful act, replete with the historically ominous imagery of shattered glass — posted hours ago on here on my Facebook wall and shared umpteen times by so many — there has been nothing but deafening silence from the very same moralizing elected officials who flipped out when a young Muslim girl faked an attack on her Hijab."
https://www.facebook.com/rabbikaplan/posts/1580190858746992
Below is reporting from The Star on the two incidents that Rabbi Kaplan wrote about. One has "hate crime" in quotes, while the other doesn't.
York Regional Police are investigating a “hate-motivated crime” after the front doors of a synagogue in Thornhill were smashed in an apparent outburst of anti-Semitic violence caught on camera.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/21/police-investigating-after-man-caught-on-video-vandalizing-thornhill-synagogue.html
Over the next 10 minutes, she said she was attacked not once, but twice, by a man who is now a suspect in a Toronto police hate crime investigation.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2018/01/12/man-cuts-hijab-off-girl-in-scarborough-police-say.html
Prime Minister Trudeau addressed the supposed hijab attack at a news conference which can be seen here.
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