Unpublished Newswire

At about 8 a.m. on March 7, about eight hours after a flurry of bullets were fired into his city’s BAYT synagogue, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca arrived at the shul to show his support. Within the hour, hundreds of congregants would arrive for Shabbat services, seeing the police tape at the front doors, the barricades and dividers, and a lot of York Regional Police officers. “It was brutal, and a real shock to see firsthand,” he said, remembering his own anger, “these glass doors, and windows shattered, and glass laying all over the place.” Most arriving at the Beth Avraham Yoseph...