Jewish community center attacked in Canada

WORLD, Nov. 28 (YPA) – A Jewish community center in Montreal was attacked in the early hours of Monday — an act decried by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “vile and hateful” amid flaring tensions in Canada over the Israel-Hamas war.

A Molotov cocktail was thrown through the building’s front door shortly after midnight, coming on the heels of several shootings and another firebombing targeting Jewish schools and institutions in Canada’s second-largest city.

“No one was present and minimal damage occurred,” the head of Montreal’s Jewish Community Council, Rabbi Saul Emanuel, said in a statement.

“The rise in anti-Semitism in our city is frightening and the repeated violence and attacks on our community are abhorrent and condemned in the strongest terms,” he added.

The weapon smashed through the glass door and exploded in a hallway, burning part of a carpet.

Earlier this month, two Jewish schools were fired on, twice in one case, and a synagogue was struck with a Molotov cocktail. There were no injuries.

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