Steven Wernick
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Opinion: The Belleville attack was a warning shot for the antisemitic attacks Canada has let fester (opens the original)
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Steven Wernick is senior rabbi of Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto. On Kol Nidre night, as the community of Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ont., gathered for the opening of Yom Kippur – when the congregation asks, together, to be forgiven and spared – a man outside with a shotgun opened fire. Stained glass shattered; shots meant for people at prayer struck nearby cars and houses. Constable Jeff Smith, a 13-year veteran of the Belleville Police Service, stood between that gunfire and t
Globe editorial: The courage needed to face down hatred (opens the original)
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On the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest time on the Jewish calendar, a man armed with a shotgun attacked the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ont., a dangerous escalation in a cycle of antisemitic violence in this country. It looks likely that only through a police officer’s heroic actions were the two dozen congregants – and Canada as a whole – spared unfathomable bloodshed, a terrible equivalent to Australia’s Bondi Beach attack last December, where Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacke
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