Jewish community leaders and a former Liberal justice minister are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to appoint a new antisemitism envoy and provide extra funding for community safety amid rising anxiety after the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shootings. They say filling the vacant envoy post is a matter of urgency after a spike in antisemitic incidents, including multiple thefts of mezuzahs from the doorways of Toronto Jewish homes this month. A mezuzah contains a parchment inscribed with scripture. Deborah Lyons resigned in July as Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, telling the Canadian Jewish News she was...
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