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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Rabbi Adam Scheier slams Montreal police for instructing him to leave a street cornerâfor safety reasons
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Rabbi Adam Scheier says what happened to him in downtown Montreal on Sunday, Nov. 24âwhen a police officer saw the full-time kippah wearer silently watching and filming a nearby pro-Palestinian march, and ordered him to move along to avoid igniting any problemsâshows âunacceptable and intolerableâ conditions being demanded of his community.
The spiritual leader of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in Canada, founded in 1846, has subsequently been speaking out about the way his cityâs leaders have handled the...