One day after a spate of threats were made to Jewish institutions around North America, including to a Jewish school in Toronto, a Forest Hill rabbi says that there's "a lot of distress" in his community. A downtown Toronto Jewish school and the community centre which houses it were both evacuated on Tuesday morning after a threatening phone call was made. Jewish community centre and to a number of other community centres and anti-defamation league offices in the United States. "You have to see little kids, who don't understand what's going on, and older people, some of them Holocaust survivors — and they do understand what's going on," he said. We've seen bullets in the back of a synagogue in Indiana, we've seen gravestones overturned in at least three cemeteries."

Source: CBC News March 08, 2017 13:52 UTC