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B’nai Brith Canada Notes Upcoming YRDSB Elections

Cliquez ici pour le français Oct. 16, 2022 VAUGHAN, ONT. – B’nai Brith Canada is alarmed by the York Region District School Board’s (YRDSB) failure to implement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The City of Vaughan, located in York Region, has one of Canada’s largest Jewish populations. In advance of scheduled …

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York Region Police Charge Three in Vaughan School Antisemitic Graffiti Case

July 10, 2017 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada York Regional Police (YRP) have charged three 17-year-olds following the discovery of antisemitic and racist hate graffiti on the walls of a Vaughan high school. According to police, the three male suspects turned themselves in and were subsequently charged with one account of mischief of over …

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Antisemitic, Racist Graffiti Stains York Region High School

June 30, 2017  By Tevy Pilc and Dahlia Horlick Staff Writer/Researcher | Campus Advocacy Researcher B’nai Brith Canada June 30, 2017  TORONTO –  “Jews did 9/11.” That was one of the appalling, antisemitic graffiti messages scrawled this week onto the wall of a York Region high school north of Toronto. There was also a swastika drawn in place of a maple leaf on a Canadian flag. …

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