The Israel Center of Conservative Judaism in Fresh Meadows was packed to the brim Sunday night as nine Queens synagogues joined forces for an emergency vigil, during which community members
Hamilton City Hall in Hamilton, Ontario. Photo credit: Montrealais / Wikimedia Commons.
A group of rabbis in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario have issued a statement of solidarity with a local councillor who received two racist, threatening phone calls in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Nrinder Nann a councillor representing Hamilton’s Ward 3 told her colleagues on Wednesday that a “disgruntled white resident” had left the offending voicemails warning that the violence witnessed in the US would erupt in Canada.
The caller threatened to incarcerate Black people, whom he labeled as “criminals,” in a container with the aid of handcuffs, zip ties and a machete.