{"id":31306,"date":"2025-02-16T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=31306"},"modified":"2025-02-16T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:33:10","slug":"emanu-el-beth-sholom-synagogue-in-westmount-bambi-joins-her-voice-to-rabbi-lisa-grushcow-in-denouncing-antisemitic-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/emanu-el-beth-sholom-synagogue-in-westmount-bambi-joins-her-voice-to-rabbi-lisa-grushcow-in-denouncing-antisemitic-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Emanu-El-Beth Sholom synagogue in Westmount: Bambi joins her voice to Rabbi Lisa Grushcow in denouncing antisemitic graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ViolenceNO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6476\" style=\"width:329px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ViolenceNO.jpg 368w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ViolenceNO-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 85vw, 368px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once again, NO to violence to any place of worship in Canada, including synagogues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Rabbi Lisa Grushcow expressed in her bilingual message: &#8220;<em>enough in enough<\/em>:<em> stand against hate<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Rabbi Grushcow&#8217;s <em>Facebook<\/em> written message, you may wish to watch her brief video, if you are interested (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yt8mbs25\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yt8mbs25<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"370\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RabinLisa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31308\" style=\"width:618px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RabinLisa.jpg 370w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RabinLisa-128x300.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 85vw, 370px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A screenshot taken from the Facebook page of the Emanu-El-Beth Sholom temple. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Of note, Emanu-El-Beth Sholom temple is a beautiful community described as follows on its own website: &#8220;<em>We draw on Judaism\u2019s wisdom to nourish a spiritual, educational, and cultural community. We also reach beyond our walls, taking pride in building bridges, promoting dialogue, and creating a world of justice and peace: the work we call Tikkun Olam&#8221;<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/59tp6fn6\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/59tp6fn6<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mr3pjvvf\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mr3pjvvf<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who do not know it, &#8220;tikkun&#8221; refers to &#8220;healing&#8221; in Hebrew. It literally means &#8220;repairing the world&#8221; [&#8220;Tikkun Olam&#8221;]. This beautiful Jewish concept is deeply rooted in social justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bearing the above in mind, isn&#8217;t it sad to vandalize the building of such peaceful synagogue with a swastika graffiti (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/fs5zb\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/fs5z<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3ypwvmtd\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3ypwvmtd<\/a>)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it is not a Jewish girl school being shot at in Toronto, it is a synagogue being attacked in Montreal, Winnipeg, and elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are our fellow citizens of Jewish ancestry being intimidated again and again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will this pattern of criminal vandalism end in our country and abroad? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Heal the World (feat. 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As Rabbi Lisa Grushcow expressed in her bilingual message: &#8220;enough in enough: stand against hate&#8220;. In addition to Rabbi Grushcow&#8217;s Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31306"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31316,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions\/31316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}