Two young Beis Rivka students were beaten and had glass bottles thrown at them in two separate incidents as they were walking home from school. In one of the attacks the assailants – two teenage girls – called the victim a ‘dirty Jew’.
In the two years since Chabad launched a centre in the lower Laurentian town of Saint-Sauveur, a lot has changed, its 26-year-old director, Rabbi Yitzchok Ezagui said.
Visiting New York to raise money for security of their school, Rabbi Yaakov Monsonego, the principal of the Ohr Hatorah school in Toulouse France, who also lost his 6-year-old daughter Miriam in the infamous terror attack last year, stopped by the Rebbes room with his wife.
In response to a bloody weekend of gun violence that claimed the lives of seven people and left least 26 others wounded, the city police commissioner announced he would step up foot patrols in housing projects, increase plain clothes detectives in anti-crime units, add surveillance towers and monitor gang activity to curb retaliatory shooting, a police spokesman said.
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