Three attacks on Jewish targets in Canada in one week have left officials shaken, but confident the offences are not part of a trend. Two of the attacks are being treated as crimes of hate against Jews.
Arson investigators are busy with two incidents, one in Ottawa and the other in Toronto.
There have been no arrests and police have few leads. Although it was arson and it occurred hours after Yom Kippur ended, the blaze is not being treated as hate-motivated. And in Montreal, vandals broke into a private home over Yom Kippur, did thousands of dollars in damage and scrawled anti0Semitic messages on walls. Weintraub said that because two of the attacks were hate-driven, he expects they will be given high priority. On Sept. 30, Simon Bohbol, his wife Jocelyne, and their children Miriam, Benjamin and Jessica returned home after observing Yom Kippur and Miriam's 15th birthday, and were appalled to discover the destruction inside.