An Orthodox Jewish woman whose sister was born and died in a concentration camp believes her family is being targeted in Toronto after six swastikas were scrawled into the stairwell of her North York building this weekend – the National Post reports.
Two more swastikas appeared on a library in Parkdale on Sunday evening. Both incidents drew the condemnation of Mayor David Miller and Jewish organizations yesterday.
Six swastikas appeared to be smoked by candle on to the walls of a stairwell at a Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue apartment building. The swastikas were large and black, as were the words CCCP, an acronym for the former Soviet Union. Written below it in Russian were the words, “We will win.”
“Now I do connect those things together and I see that we are the target. We are the only Orthodox-looking family,” said the woman, adding that her family will likely move out after this incident. “We don’t feel safe anymore.”
Ms. Kirsch commended a speedy response from police.
(Source: National Post)
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toronto is a s pretty safe place but that neighborhood is not, I have seen street gangs beating each other up a few blocks away from where mrs. kirsh lives
mrs. kirsh lives in a nonreligous russian neighborhood & I am not surprised by what happened, gang wars, beatings & murders are not unheard of over there
#2: Don’t tell the hundreds of people who daven at the Sefardic Kehilla Center, the Russian Jewish Community Center, B’nai Torah, BAYT and Chabad that the Steeles and Bathurst community is a ‘nonreligious russian neighborhood’.
Now Parkdale, that’s a whole other story. That area is a real eyesore.
excuse me ”oldbar” remember when that nonriligous jewish teen was beaten to death or when there was a bloody fight on bathurst & rockford, those kind of things don’t happen in religious neighborhoods. past steels is a religous area. ps. if these things are happening in your religous neighborhood than stay away from the ”oldbar”.